17 Dey 2579 Shahanshahi — equivalent to 17 Dey 1399 Shamsi and 2021-01-06 Gregorian. Women's Emancipation Day is observed on this day. Today's occasion, a cultural insight, and a classical Persian verse.
17 Dey 2579 in the Shahanshahi calendar falls on Wednesday — equivalent to 17 Dey 1399 Shamsi and 6 January 2021 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