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The “Thirteen's Joke” is the name of a celebration similar to April Fool's Day in Western countries, in which people tell lies from morning until noon or even until night.
Thirteen's joke in Iran
[edit]For over sixty years in Iran, a tradition called “Thirteen Jokes” has been practiced by some journalists. Since April Fools’ Day falls just one day before Sizdah Bedar (the 13th day of Nowruz), this coincidence inspired Iranians to make playful jokes on that day. While Sizdah Bedar is originally a festival of joy, nature, and prayers for rain and fertility, it also became a time for lighthearted pranks and fun in the media.
Ismail Pourvali, a prominent Iranian journalist widely known as “Mr. Director,” wrote in 1991 in Paris that on April 2, 1943, the newspaper Nabard dedicated its entire issue to Thirteen Jokes: “We turned the entire issue number thirteen into Thirteen Jokes.” One of these fabricated stories claimed that Hitler had declared a ceasefire, which brought joy to the public. Another false report announced the death of Haj Mohtasham al-Saltaneh, the Speaker of Parliament, leading many people to his residence for a supposed funeral. At the time, the newspaper was managed by Khosrow Eqbal, with contributors including Mahmoud Tafazoli, Javad Fazel, Hassan Arsanjani, and Jahangir Tafazoli. Pourvali himself later passed away in Paris.
In recent years, reformist newspapers have addressed this issue. For the first time, Ibrahim Nabavi in the newspaper Neshat published the news of the release of Abdullah Ocalan (who had been kidnapped and transferred to Turkey in a controversial operation attributed to the United States, Israel, and Turkey).
One of the most controversial 13th-anniversary jokes in Iran was the news of the tilting and possible collapse of the Milad Tower, which was published in the last issue of the Shargh newspaper in 2004. This joke was taken seriously by opposition media outlets and analyzed. Others attributed it to Iran's nuclear program. Property prices in the areas around the tower also decreased for a while. On 13 April 2015, the Cultural Heritage Agency reported that the British Queen's Office had said: "We are returning Koh Noor to Iran." The agency then announced this news in a note written by Shahin Spanta as the media's "13th-anniversary joke," and wrote about it: "13th-anniversary jokes in Iran are usually humorous reflections of various historical, social, and sometimes political facts, in order to provide a jolt to the media audience on a happy day and draw their attention to untold aspects of historical and social facts." In 2017, news of the death of Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati was published in cyberspace, but this news was denied by the Telegram channel of the Guardian Council.
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