Today in Photos, January 30
30 Jan 2013
An Iranian Zoroastrian plays a flute as he leads the priests walking to set the firewoods ablaze during the annual Zoroastrian Sadeh festival in a suburb of Tehran, on Wednesday. Sadeh, is an ancient Persian festival that is celebrated by setting a huge bonfire to honour fire and to defeat the forces of darkness, frost, and cold. Sadeh means "hundred" and refers to one hundred days and nights past the end of summer. Photo: AFP
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