7 Dey 2585 Shahanshahi — equivalent to 7 Dey 1405 Shamsi and 2026-12-28 Gregorian. Today's occasion, a cultural insight, and a classical Persian verse.
7 Dey 2585 in the Shahanshahi calendar falls on Monday — equivalent to 7 Dey 1405 Shamsi and 28 December 2026 Gregorian.
After the rial collapsed to a record low of about 1.45 million per US dollar, merchants at Tehran's Alaeddin and Charsou bazaars went on strike. Within a day the strike reached the Grand Bazaar and spread nationwide, igniting the largest national uprising against the Islamic Republic.
Modern Era
Today is 7 Dey in the Shahanshahi calendar — one day in thousands of years of unbroken Persian culture.
چو آفتاب تو طالع شدی ز مشرق روح ز مشرق تو دگر آفتاب سر نزند
“When you rose as sun from the east of soul From your east no other sun shall rise”
— Rumi