Thread by @gillesMioni

International News - #Iran #ایران
The چهارشنبهسوری (Tcharshanbeh Souri) fire festival begins tonight and all night;
it is celebrated on the night of the last Wednesday before the Iranian New Year, Noorouzz, which falls this year on March 20.

Traditionally, people celebrate, shout and jump over bonfires while uttering an antediluvian and enigmatic ritual incantation:
"to you my yellow, to me your red". Which has the meaning of "take my evil and give me your strength."
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It is the yellow of diseases that is exchanged for the vitality of fire and new blood.
It is also broken old clay jars in which misfortune is lurking, thus wanting the new jars to fill with coins or grain.

This festival is pagan and while the mullahs cannot ban it, they warn every year against superstition and excesses. In recent years, this festival is distinguished by the massive use of pyrotechnic devices of Chinese manufacture. #ایران

In principle simple fireworks, but often turns into a massacre :
each year, hundreds of people are injured and some killed.
Many Iranians prefer to stay indoors on this day. Restaurants close, for fear of their windows being broken.
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One wonders what it may turn into this year because during the protests last fall, many protesters began using pyrotechnics against the police.
Flares were repeatedly fired at the police who were injured as a result of these attacks.

As a result, this year's Charshanbeh Souri celebrations are banned from the squares and main streets.
Apparently, the police will try to disperse the crowds. #Iran #ایران

Sometimes there will be fights with firecrackers and fireworks directed at the police, sometimes there will be a gloomy silence where they manage to contain the youth.
A brutal revolutionary outburst or one of the calmest and saddest Tcharshanbeh Souri in the history of #ایران

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