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Sacred Defence Week


The Sacred Defence Week, also translated as The Holy Defence Week (Persian: هفته دفاع مقدس‎‎) is an Iranian annual commemoration of the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war (often called "the Sacred Defence" in Iran). It is marked by military parades. It is set by the Iranian calendar and begins on Shahrivar 31.


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