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19 Dey 2575

19 Dey 2575 Shahanshahi — equivalent to 19 Dey 1395 Shamsi and 2017-01-08 Gregorian. Peak of the National Rising is observed on this day. Today's occasion, a cultural insight, and a classical Persian verse.

19 Dey 2575 in the Shahanshahi calendar falls on Sunday — equivalent to 19 Dey 1395 Shamsi and 8 January 2017 Gregorian.

Shahanshahi
19 Dey 2575
Shamsi
19 Dey 1395
Gregorian
8 January 2017

Today's occasion

Peak of the National Rising

On 19 Dey 2584 (9 January 2026), the national rising reached its peak, spreading to nearly 400 cities across all 31 provinces of Iran; according to intelligence assessments relayed by a European diplomat, close to five million people took to the streets nationwide. It became the largest Iranian uprising since 1979. The regime's bloody crackdown took the lives of thousands of javidnaman; HRANA confirmed more than 7,000 killed, with estimates running into the tens of thousands.

Cultural insight

Today is 19 Dey in the Shahanshahi calendar — one day in thousands of years of unbroken Persian culture.

Verse of the day

چشمه چون ز سنگ بر می‌آید دُر و مرجان ز کوه سر می‌آید

“When a spring emerges from rock Pearls and coral come from mountains”

— Saadi

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