TEHRAN – The streets of Tehran are more than busy these days; Iranians are only days away from their Persian new year, Nowruz. Wherever you go in the Iranian capital, signs of the 3000-year-old cultural celebration surround you.
It's a new year indeed—a year a new president will be elected to succeed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. But people here prefer not to think about the election right now. According to Ali Akbar, an Iranian I met in the famous Vali Asr street to the north of Tehran, "it's time to celebrate!"
