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Musicians from the Kurdish western region of Iran play Daf, a hand-held Persian drum, in a ceremony ahead of the Iranian New Year, or Nowruz, at a park in Tehran, Iran, Monday, March 14, 2022. Nowruz dates back to at least 1700 B.C. and in ancient Zoroastrian traditions is the most important and anticipated holiday in Iranian culture and has been widely celebrated through various times and eras across the territories of the old Persian empire, from the Mideast to Central Asia. (Photo by Vahid Salemi/AP Photo)
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