Publish Date: 18 March 2023 - 21:00

TEHRAN, Mar. 18 (MNA) – On the eve of the Nowruz holiday, a ceremony was held in Rasht city in the north of Iran to welcome the spring season.

Nowruz is the Iranian or Persian New Year celebrated by various ethnicities worldwide. It is a festival based on the Iranian Solar Hijri calendar, on the spring equinox—on or around 21 March on the Gregorian calendar.