Yaldā night, a traditional Iranian festival, marks the end of the autumn for Persians. Friends gather to stay awake through the years' longest night.

SAT-7 PARS celebrates as it reaches its 10-year anniversary! On 18 December 2006, the Persian satellite television channel began broadcasting 24/7.

Drug addiction is a huge problem in the Farsi-speaking world. Opium produced in Afghanistan accounts for more than 90 percent of heroin worldwide.