17 Dey 2574 Shahanshahi — equivalent to 17 Dey 1394 Shamsi and 2016-01-07 Gregorian. Women's Emancipation Day is observed on this day. Today's occasion, a cultural insight, and a classical Persian verse.
17 Dey 2574 in the Shahanshahi calendar falls on Thursday — equivalent to 17 Dey 1394 Shamsi and 7 January 2016 Gregorian.
On 8 January 1936, Reza Shah the Great took the historic step of women's emancipation — a path that led to suffrage, university education, and women in public life during the Pahlavi era. The Woman, Life, Freedom movement continues that path.
Today is 17 Dey in the Shahanshahi calendar — one day in thousands of years of unbroken Persian culture.
شب تاریک و بیم موج و گردابی چنین هایل کجا دانند حال ما سبکباران ساحلها
“Dark night, fear of waves, such a terrible whirlpool How can those on shore know our state”
— Hafez