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Good morning to readers; #Oil prices have surpassed $112 per barrel (+56% compare to pre-war.)

Instead of dancing around bonfires in traditional Kurdish clothing, Shiwa spent #Nowruz and Eid watching the news, unable to call loved ones as the war muted her hollidays. https://www.iranwar.news/p/what-iranian-new-year-end-of-ramadan

What Iranian New Year, end of Ramadan feel like as war rages

By coincidence, the Iranian New Year, Nowruz, and the end-of-Ramadan celebration, Eid-al-Fitr, arrived on the same day. See how Kurds celebrate near the Iranian border under the shadow of war.

Iran War Dispatches with Tim Mak

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Tim Mak 3d ago

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of #Iraq —

Eid-al-Fitr and Nowruz. Iranian and Iraqi #Kurds. One city.

The first day of Eid-al-Fitr is one of Islam’s biggest holidays because it marks the end of #Ramadan.

But it’s often quiet until the evening, like Christmas morning might be in #America.

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Tim Mak 3d ago

Muslims spend time with their families at home and the streets are mostly empty. The quiet should mean that everyone is home, everyone is safe, everyone is together.

But this year, that quiet was also that of disconnected phones, fires that weren’t lit, tables that weren’t set.
#Kurds #war #Iran #news

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Tim Mak 3d ago

Instead of dancing around bonfires in traditional Kurdish clothes and celebrating #Kurdish legends of resistance to tyranny, Shiwa Hassanpour, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd and a human rights activist in Erbil, spent most of #Nowruz, the traditional Iranian new year, watching the #news.
#war #middleeast

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Tim Mak 3d ago

The war between the United States and #Iran is entering its fourth week, and two important holidays, Eid-al-Fitr and #Nowruz, are falling on the same day for the first time in decades, or perhaps longer.

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Tim Mak 3d ago

Find out more about what we're hearing about #Iranian crackdowns on #Kurds celebrating this year and how this year's #Nowruz had to evolve with the constraints of war through the link! https://www.iranwar.news/p/what-iranian-new-year-end-of-ramadan

What Iranian New Year, end of Ramadan feel like as war rages

By coincidence, the Iranian New Year, Nowruz, and the end-of-Ramadan celebration, Eid-al-Fitr, arrived on the same day. See how Kurds celebrate near the Iranian border under the shadow of war.

Iran War Dispatches with Tim Mak

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Tim Mak 3d ago

THE LATEST #NEWS AT THIS HOUR:

TRUMP CONSIDERS WITHDRAWING WITHOUT OPENING #HORMUZ: #Trump told reporters that he may be “winding down” the Iran war, according to the BBC. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpd5l00z7n6o