March 24, 2009
Happy Nowruz From Obama
By ANTHONY ZEITOUNI (Special to the Middle East Times) March 24, 2009
NEW PRESIDENT, NEW OUTLOOK -- Iran's government recognized U.S. President Barack Obama's Nowruz message as an historic departure onto a path that broke from the previous administration's buzzwords of "axis of evil," "regime change" and "use of force," one Iranian researcher says. the illustration shows Obama, the 44th U.S. president, and White House. (Lexington
Nowruz marked the first day of spring and the beginning of the year on the Iranian calendar. This year, U.S. President Barack Obama marked the start of Persian New Year with an unprecedented initiative to congratulate both the Iranian people directly and the leaders of Iran by purposely using the name that they chose for their country, the "Islamic Republic of Iran."
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