There is no goldfish this year

Nowruz is the traditional Iranian new year holiday celebrated by Iranian, Turkic and many other peoples in West Asia, Central Asia, South Asia, Northwestern China, the Caucasus, the Crimea, and the Balkans.

Nowruz marks the first day of spring and the beginning of the Iranian year. It supposed to be full of joy and happines for people and all along during Nowruz holidays but for Iranians it has not been during past years, specially last year with track record of executions, imprisonment of students, torturing prisoner, censorship, massive crackdown on worker's union and etc. so Tehran university students gave away a thousand little black fish to people, just to send their message to people's home.

It should be noted that major tradition of Nowruz is Haft Sin which is a table which includes seven specific items starting with the letter 'S' and some other itmes. An item that usually people put on their table is a bowl of water with goldfish which means life within life.

Black fishes were notification to strange bystanders that this Nowruz is not the Nowruz that they were looking for, it's a sad moment in their life and in history of Iran. There is no goldfish this year.