The Iranian fire festival in Brussels: 'I have already jumped over the fire five times'

On 21 March, together with spring, the year 1401 began for the Iranians. But a week earlier, the fire festival Charshanba Suri was celebrated in Brussels. "This celebration is almost banned in Iran. We cannot dance and sing like this there. Before the arrival of Islam in Iran, we were a very cheerful community, but after that everything changed."