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Iranians defied a ban on events marking a traditional holiday Tuesday — the Feast of Fire, an ancient Iranian holiday with Zoroastrian roots — turning the annual celebration into a show of anti-government sentiment.
Also Tuesday, opposition leader Mir Hussein Moussavi appeared to challenge the authority of supreme religious leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei by assigning a name to the new Iranian year — the year of “perseverance and patience” — a traditional prerogative of the ayatollah.
