The shortest day of the year is traditionally celebrated in Iran, where it is known as Yalda. Col Zulfikar Barfar, head of Tehran's moral-security force, said the partygoers had been drinking and ...
1h 25m 2020 Persian A young woman faces the death penalty after she accidentally kills her older husband. She appears on live TV alongside her husband's daughter, who is asked to forgive her.
Speaking on he occasion Director General Khana Farhang Iran Framarz Rehmanzad said that Yalda night has great importance in Iranian history and culture and is celebrated as a festival. He said this ...
and then a play on the Persian borrowing of an Aramaic/Syriac word referring to "birth." Yes, we all know that shab-e yalda is the celebration of the longest night of the year, the winter solstice.