PARIS: When Iran erupted in nationwide protests at the end of 2025, Shayan Ghadimi’s mother returned to the country from Paris to see the uprising for herself. Her absence — and the struggle to stay in touch through the bloody crackdown that followed and now the Iran war — hang over the family. Like many Iranians outside the country, they will mark the normally festive Persian new year, known as Nowruz, with heavy hearts — or not at all. Ghadimi’s 70-year-old mother had watched the early protests on TV. “We could see the market closed, the people in the street.

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Iranians speak to the BBC about preparing for the Nowruz new year festival during the war.

PARIS: When Iran erupted in nationwide protests at the end of 2025, Shayan Ghadimi’s mother returned to the country from Paris to see the uprising for herself. Her absence — and…

Little joy could be found among Iranians in the diaspora as Friday rang in Persian new year and the war on their homeland reached the three-week mark

Iranians in Tehran and across the country cautiously marked the Persian New Year despite the ongoing war entering its fourth week