Best Iranian romance movies

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  • Poster for Through the Olive Trees

    Through the Olive Trees 1994

    When the actor in a scene for his film Life And Nothing More… has to quit, a film director casts another man for the part. However, complications arise since the man and the woman who was cast for the scene know each other.

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  • Poster for No Bears

    No Bears 2022

    Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who has been barred from leaving the country, arrives at a village on the Iran-Turkey border to supervise a film based on a real-life couple seeking passports to Europe being shot in Turkey, but both his stay and the production run into trouble.

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  • Poster for Baran

    Baran 2001

    On a building site in present-day Tehran, Lateef, a 17-year-old Turkish worker is irresistibly drawn to Rahmat, a young Afghan worker. The revelation of Rahmat's secret changes both their lives.

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  • Poster for The Warden

    The Warden 2019

    In 1967, an old prisoner in southern Iran is being evacuated because of the proximity to the city's new airport. The head of the prison, Major Nemat Jahed, and his agents are busy transferring prisoners to the new prison, until ...

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  • Poster for Gabbeh

    Gabbeh 1996

    An elderly couple go about their routine of cleaning their gabbeh, while bickering gently with each other. Magically, a young woman appears, helping the two clean the rug. This young woman belongs to the clan whose history is depicted in the design of the gabbeh, and the rug recounts the story of the courtship of the young woman by a stranger from the clan.

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  • Poster for Leila

    Leila 1999

    This film tells the story of a semi modern Iranian couple, who are trying to fight the old beliefs and old generation. This is a failing battle because the man is not strong enough.

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  • Poster for Lantouri

    Lantouri 2016

    Lantouri is the name of a gang that mugs people in broad daylight on the streets of Tehran and breaks into homes in the city’s rich northern district. The gang also kidnaps children from families who have become wealthy through corruption and embezzlement of state funds. The film begins with the confessions of individual gang members. Sociologists, human rights activists and political hardliners also have their say. Gang member Pasha runs amok because Maryam, a socially committed, self-confident journalist, does not reciprocate his feelings. The badly injured young woman demands lex talionis – the law, applicable in Iran, of ‘an eye for an eye’.

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  • Poster for When the Moon Was Full

    When the Moon Was Full 2019

    In the market Abdolhamid meets Faezeh and falls in love with her. They get marry and begin their life. But after a while Faezeh becomes aware of Abdolhamid's family in Sistan and Baluchestan province and that they are doing illegals. Faezeh decides to escape with her husband to Pakistan but there they meet Abdolhamid's brother Abdolmalek Rigi who is a terrorist.

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  • Poster for The Glass Agency

    The Glass Agency 1998

    The Glass Agency is the story of a war veteran living in post war Iran. It depicts veterans who are suffering from social problems after the war. Society does not understand them and the standard social norms are not in harmony with their personalities.

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  • Poster for Dance With Me

    Dance With Me 2019

    A reunion of old friends for Jahangir's birthday when everyone is informed of his fatal illness - An inevitable confrontation with the current situation and the past - Series of the tensions and the reconciliations leading to a road to the life - however, death is knocking on the door.

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  • Poster for What's the Time In Your World?

    What's the Time In Your World? 2015

    A woman comes back from Paris to her country after a long time. She meets a man that she hardly knows, but he knows a lot about her life.

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  • Poster for White Nights

    White Nights 2003

    A young university professor, who leads a quiet and reclusive life and fills his life with reading and teaching literature, meet a young girl who has altered the course of her life for the sake of a man she loves. She has promised to meet her beloved at a certain spot on four consecutive nights exactly one year after their last meeting. The young professor's encounter with the young and passionate girl during four nights brings about significant changes in both of their lives and beliefs. Now concepts like love, literature and expection have a new meaning for them.

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  • Poster for The Third Day

    The Third Day 2007

    During the Iran-Iraq War, a disabled young woman is taken captive by Iraqi Baathist forces in Khuzestan Province. Her brother, along with his fellow combatants, tries to free his sister from the clutches of the enemy.

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  • Poster for Snowman

    Snowman 1995

    A Iranian man (Akbar Abdi) stuck in Turkey, desperately wants to get a VISA to go to America. He starts dressing up as a woman in hopes of marrying an American man to get American citizenship, but he starts having doubts and...

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  • Poster for Lottery

    Lottery 2018

    Two Iranian teenagers in love want to get married, travel to the US to get a green card and live there, but their parents object. With not enough money saved, they pin their hopes on winning the state lottery to fund their trip, but tragedy derails their plans.

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  • Poster for Cease Fire

    Cease Fire 2006

    A couple (Golzar & Afshar) who have been bickering & fighting from day one, are contemplating divorce until by chance they both end up visiting a therapist (Pesiani) who dishes them the secrets of a good relationship. Various episodes from the couple's married life are represented as flashbacks in a lighthearted manner.

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  • Poster for Desiderium

    Desiderium 1977

    Desiderium lyrically charts the hapless loves of a three brother: Majid, they young handicapped brother with a deformed head falls in love with Aghdas, a prostitute hired by his eldest brother Habib to entertain him, not knowing the truth about her profession. Karim, the middle brother is so infatuated with a quail that he almost completely ignores his wife and her emotions. Habib himself is in love with Foroogh, a tailor lady who lives with them, while his sense of responsibility about Majid keeps him from requiting her affections.

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  • Poster for Companion

    Companion 1975

    "Aatefeh," who has been deceived by "Mohsen," tries to persuade him to marry her. However, "Mohsen" runs away from her and heads to the north. Determined to achieve her goal, "Aatefeh" follows him north. The father of "Aatefeh," a wealthy man, assigns a young man named "Ali" to find his daughter and bring her back to the family.

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  • Poster for The Color Purple

    The Color Purple 2010

    An undercover Iranian intelligence officer investigates the political status of a college student, whose parents were active members of the mujahedin khalgh radical group.

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  • Poster for Tehran: City of Love

    Tehran: City of Love 2019

    Three lonely people, each looking for love in their own ways. This is hard enough in any big city – never mind in Tehran, where individual freedoms can’t be taken for granted. In a sexy voice on the telephone, an overweight receptionist seduces men who wouldn’t look twice at her real ‘me’. A former bodybuilding champion now earns a living as a personal trainer. When he develops feelings for a promising young sportsman as a client; he drops everything else; even a very promising acting job for a well-known French director. A singer at religious funerals is dumped by his fiancée. He tries to find new purpose in life by retraining as a singer at weddings and parties. That’s a lot more attractive to women, his friend assures him.

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  • Poster for The Last Step

    The Last Step 2012

    Actress Leila bursts into laughter on camera during the filming of a dramatic scene. Her improper behavior is a reaction to the recent death of her husband Koshrow, who accidentally fell down a flight of stairs. And it is Koshrow who serves as the film’s somewhat unreliable narrator, appearing in the movie even after his death. The couple’s complicated yet loving relationship unfolds as a delicately ironic detective story inside the elusive and, at the same time, obsessively arranged space- time of memory. Nevertheless, it reveals Koshrow’s secret life crisis and delves deep into the past, to an ancient house in the mountains.

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  • Poster for The Situation of Mehdi

    The Situation of Mehdi 2022

    Mehdi Bakeri asks his younger brother Hamid to return to the war zone and be by his side despite the problems and issues that have happened to him. Hamid accepts his request and goes with his brother. After the Operation Kheibar.

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  • Poster for Downpour

    Downpour 1972

    When he takes a job as a schoolteacher in a new neighborhood, the hapless intellectual Mr. Hekmati finds that he is a fish out of water.

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  • Poster for Wooden Bridge

    Wooden Bridge 2012

    It is about life of a young couple who want to migrate from their country. But the arrival of Nazli makes problems...

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  • Poster for Along the Night

    Along the Night 1978

    Parvaneh, a famous singer and movie star, has an affair with a married man. A student named Baabak, who suffers from leukaemia, falls in love with Parvaneh. They have a good time together for a while, until she hears about Baabak's disease and decides to send him abroad for medical treatment.

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  • Poster for The Red Ribbon

    The Red Ribbon 1999

    A man and a woman fight over the rights to a property.

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  • Poster for Parting

    Parting 2016

    Two young Afghans, Fereshteh and Nabi, are in love, but Fereshteh has to follow her parents and leave Afghanistan to find refuge in Iran. Nabi decides to illegally cross the border, find Fereshteh and take her through Turkey towards Europe and a better life.

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  • Poster for Reza

    Reza 2019

    Reza is a divorced author who is trying to adopt to his new life after divorce while he finds a new romance.

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  • Poster for Russian

    Russian 2019

    Toomaj manages to escape from the prison but when get back home he finds that his wife has been raped by an unknown person. This is only the beginning of the troubles as Toomaj begins to search for that person.

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  • Poster for Heiran

    Heiran 2010

    During the rule of Taliban in Afghanistan, about 3 million illegal Afghani immigrants entered Iran and caused numerous problems for the Iranian society to accept them. This film depicts the story of a 17 year old rural girl by the name of Mahi (Fish), who comes from a war-stricken family in southern Iran. Mahi falls in love with Heiran, an Afghan student who has come to their village to work. However, Mahi's family being strictly against her marriage to Heiran, force Mahi to choose one between her family and an Afghan boy.

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  • Poster for Vaziat Sefid

    Vaziat Sefid 2011

    When the Tehran rain rocket launches from the winter of 1366, members of the crowded family, almost all of whom are violent and dissent, to prevent hostile attacks by their mothers living in the villages in the outskirts of Tehran. A village whose main source has become a place of residence for warlords. Establishing this family in the garden and its neighbors to the peoples living in the climax, makes families understand families and understand them about each other's problems and the roots of their differences. They find out during the adventures that they are capable of helping each other and ... But the central core and the role of the story of an adolescent called Amir is that many things are happening to him and different stories that the other members of each other in parallel to the story before win ...

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  • Poster for The Cry Under Water

    The Cry Under Water 1977

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  • Poster for Red

    Red 1998

    Hasti, a widowed nurse who has a daughter, marries a paranoid wealthy man.

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  • Poster for Atabai

    Atabai 2020

    Atabai lives with his father and his niece in the village of Pirkandi (Khoi). He was an architecture student at Tehran University of Fine Arts many years ago and left school a year after graduating because of the emotional problems caused by his unexpected love for his colleague....

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  • Poster for Heartbroken

    Heartbroken 2009

    Heartbroken is the story of love between two youngsters who have two different perspectives and are from two different families.

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  • Poster for Silent

    Silent 2015

    one night, three friends, untold secrets.

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  • Poster for Prophet Joseph

    Prophet Joseph 2008

    The story follows Joseph's journey from being sold by his brothers to Egypt, his trials in Potiphar's house, imprisonment, rise to power interpreting dreams, reunion with his family after proving his brothers' remorse.

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  • Poster for The Pear Tree

    The Pear Tree 1998

    A man contemplates life and compares it to a pear tree in his yard which stops producing fruit.

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  • Poster for Hafez

    Hafez 2007

    A young man named Shamsadin (Mehdi Moradi) receives the title of Hafez, bestowed only on those who memorize the Koran, and is sent to teach it to Nabat (Aso), the overseas-raised daughter of a religious leader. Although they never see each other's faces, feelings of love grow between them as they read the holy book. Unable to contain his feelings for Nabat, Hafez breaks his vows as a holy man by composing a poem to her, and is thrown out of her father's house and forced to relinquish his title. Then Nabat is forced to marry another man. Will the two ever be able to meet again?

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  • Poster for The Long Farewell

    The Long Farewell 2015

    A textile factory worker struggles to keep his life together after his life is shrouded in controversy by his wife’s death. He is revered by his co-workers and at constant threat from his wife’s brother, seeking retribution for her death.

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  • Poster for Deep Breath

    Deep Breath 2003

    This is about two guys who are departed from their family in totally different ways, they are anti social and try to live in a large city without any money, one of them fall in love and another one got addicted.

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  • Poster for The Fish Fall in Love

    The Fish Fall in Love 2007

    After 22 years, Aziz decides to return to his hometown, to sell some family possessions, including the house where he was born. But for his astonishment, the place is now a small restaurant, run by four women, one of them a girl whom he once dated. Attieh, the girl, tries to convince him not to sell the place by, instead of telling him a story a day as Sheherazade, cooking him a delicious dish every day.

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  • Poster for A Few Cubic Meters of Love

    A Few Cubic Meters of Love 2014

    A romance blooms between a young Iranian working in a Teheran factory and the daughter of an Afghan worker.

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  • Poster for Sheyda

    Sheyda 1999

    Farhad has lost his eyesight due to an injury sustained in battle. As part of his recovery, he is transferred to a temporary hospital, where he encounters young nurse Sheida. Sheida is surprised by his tolerance to the pain of his injury, but soon realises that her recitation of Quran verses has a miraculous calming effect on him. And as the two start to grow closer and Farhad begins to heal, they find themselves on the path between faith and hope, and the true nature of both is revealed to them.

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  • Poster for The Changed Man

    The Changed Man 1998

    Khosro Paziresh, poor inventor of a magical washing powder went to see the CEO to manufacture his invention But accidentally fell into the elevator shaft.

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  • Poster for Pari

    Pari 1995

    Pari is an honor student in literature and theatre at Tehran University. Attracted to the life of her late brother Asad, an ascetic and devotee to Eastern philosophy, she abandons her usual life and embarks on a journey to find herself and discover who she really is. Her quest upsets her other brother, Dadashi, who disagrees with the ascetic life of Asad and tries to convince Pari to return to literature and theater. Her quest upsets her other brother, Dadashi, who disagrees with the ascetic life of Asad and tries to convince Pari to return to literature and theater

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  • Poster for Passion of Love

    Passion of Love 1999

    Sahar and Kian are in love and want to get marry but Sahar's parents are disagreeing with that so they decide to run away together to the north of Iran. But in the way in the bus they face new troubles.

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  • Poster for Intoxicated by Love

    Intoxicated by Love 2024

    Story of Rumi, his friendship with Shams Tabrizi, the love he had for him and the great influence of Shams over him in his life, his poetry and his love for God.

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  • Poster for Mina's Choice

    Mina's Choice 2016

    Mehran and Mina are a happy couple but face a problem when Mina is absorbed toward a terrorist group Monafeghin. Mehran who is a reporter becomes suspicious of her when a chemical bomb is dropped over the place in which she is studying.

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  • Poster for Crook

    Crook 2008

    Twenty years after their relationship ends, Atta and Nazanin reconnect. Atta, now a taxi driver, is completely besotted with cars, while Nazanin is now obsessed with dogs. However, this only scratches the surface of their vast differences. As they become embroiled in a complicated series of car chases and twists, it is uncertain whether the two will put aside their misgivings about one another. A comedic drama with plenty of thrills, this film offers something for all audiences.

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  • Poster for Emad and Tuba Romanticism

    Emad and Tuba Romanticism 2021

    When fate brought Emad and Touba face to face for the first time, both of them knew very well that love is more of a skill than excitement and heart palpitations and itchy skin.

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  • Poster for The Golden Palace

    The Golden Palace 1969

    A rich and arrogant man becomes aware that his two sons are married to two girls from poor families. He refuses that causing his two sons to leave him in his palace alone. But that cause ...

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  • Poster for Kader Bağlayınca

    Kader Bağlayınca 1976

    A devoted portrait photographer Murat and flower-selling entertainer Zeynep, who frequently clash yet deeply love each other while working at the same nightclub, find their relationship upended after Zeynep saves mafia boss Bekir from a violent attack and is injured in the process. As Bekir nurses her back to health, he falls for her, forcing Zeynep to choose between the two lovers.

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  • Poster for 3 Degrees of Fever

    3 Degrees of Fever 2011

    Elham is about to marry a young rich guy. But the guy's mother tells her that she doesn't like her nose and before the marriage she should make a plastic surgery and fix it. Elham does the ...

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  • Poster for Havoo

    Havoo 2006

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  • Poster for Bitter Memories

    Bitter Memories 1977

    Emel works at Osman's club. There she meets Kemal and they fall in love. They decide to get married. Kemal's man Mahmut, gets Kemal into a pretended drugs business and causes Kemal to go to Tehran. Kemal writes letters to Emel but they are kept by Mahmut and Emel never sees them. Mahmut calls Kemal to Istanbul.

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  • Poster for Ice Flower

    Ice Flower 2004

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  • Poster for Salaam Mumbai

    Salaam Mumbai 2016

    Ali is an Iranian exchange student from Iran who is studying medicine as a cardio resident in Mumbai. By chance, he saves the life of one of his classmates Karishma, who has attempted suicide. Little by little he tries to talk to Karishma and give her hope and happiness, which eventually leads to the two of them falling in love.

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  • Poster for Red Rose

    Red Rose 2014

    A politically complacent middle-aged man and a young pro-democracy activist debate about the future of their country while hiding from the police, in this fascinating drama that blends scripted scenes with on-the-ground footage from Iran’s 2009 Green Revolution.

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  • Poster for Mothering

    Mothering 2018

    Nava tries to convince her sister to get back with her husband, while her own fiance is cheating on her.

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  • Poster for The Pastry Girl

    The Pastry Girl 2002

    The film is all about marriage. A boy and a girl from two families want to get married, but for twenty years because of the differences between their parents either their engagement, or their wedding has been put of. The disagreements get more serious and finally the boy and the girl decide to commit suicide.

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  • Poster for The Blue-Veiled

    The Blue-Veiled 1995

    An elderly owner of a tomato farm and sauce factory, after his wife's death, falls in love with one of the workers of the factory endangering his relationship with his daughters and in-laws. While everybody in the big family persuades the old man to abandon the relationship with the poor girl, the old man makes his final choice of love.

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  • Poster for Cafe Setareh

    Cafe Setareh 2006

    Filmmaker Saman Moghadam details the struggles of three women living in an antiquated district of Tehran in this emotionally resonant drama. Fabria's husband has been morally corrupted, and now it's up to her to take charge of the small café that proves the only source of income to the couple. Saloomeh is a beautiful young woman who dreams of marrying Ebi, but how will the couple survive on the salary of a simple mechanic? Lastly, middle aged Moluk has fallen for a much younger man, and her heart breaks when she discovers that her love is unrequited.

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  • Poster for Iranian Girl

    Iranian Girl 2003

    Despite multiple suitors, Maryam is determined to preserve her independence. Her cousin Naghmeh, however, is cast down by her own lack of suitors. Maryam takes it upon herself to find a suitable match for Naghmeh.

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  • Poster for Nargess

    Nargess 1992

    A sharp-edged look at people who live outside the constraints of Islamic law.

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  • Poster for Skin

    Skin 2020

    When demonic Jinns threaten his mother, a man must confront the sins of his family and a curse that spans generations.

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