Today at about 2:41 am (GMT) the new year of 1399 started in Iran without any kissing and hand shaking.. For many years no one hand shake For 41 years that the revolutionary and top policy makers of Iran were trying to stop this Iranian ancient tradition, ceremonies and activities for this greatest and 7000 years old of celebrity. All the way COVID-19 was responsible for it that made the Islamic hard liners happy.
In fact, irrespective of all bad faces of the self-reproducing viruses (hand made by MIT University genetic scientists {Ref: Time magazine, Nov. 1975) the COVID-19 virus has shown some good faces and also has discovered the true civilized communities in the world, also, the abilities of the governments for their typical confronting with crisis like this.
1- Iranians and the new year habits
Since March 1st, the Iranian Government and its Health Minister asked the Iranian communities and individuals not to leave the residents and stay at home. They also insisted not to travel during the new year holidays. When the Iranian New Year started, many people didn’t care about the cronavirus and preferred to pay their attention to the New Year custom and traditions.
The roads and highways became full of cars that had decided to have their traditional trips. So the goverenment decided just to control the traffic and check the passengers for possible suspicious being infected.
2- The civilization
Whereas the news channels were showing the supermarkets being attacked in many countries in Europe, in Iran (the 2nd country that was infected but according to our investigations was the third after Italy) none of the shops and suermarkets were attacked b people and everything was normal and in order.
This, for the first time and by practical show off, proved that the Iranians are one the most civilized countries.
Now, even the slope of the infection is upward, everything is normal and the people are enjoying their New Year holidays and traditions. To know more about the Iranian New Year, you can read the following articles at this website.
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