Dear Professor Do Walk,
I hope you are activewell and cheerfulhappy.
First of all, thank you for your comments and suggestions that allowed us to greatly improve the quality of the manuscript. We agree with all your comments, and we corrected point by point the manuscript accordingly, point by point.
As you wisely said, we wanted to increase the descriptive sections based on qualitative research, but due to the limit of 7000 words, we preferred to focus more on the documents and tables of research findings so that there is no ambiguity in this case.
If you agree, we will delete the quantitative tables and instantlyimmediately add the desired descriptive sections.
The rate and severity of shortcomings and criticisms of each festival vary according to the nature of the festivals in each festival, but it has been attempted not to referto avoid referring to a specific festival so as not to upset the directors of each festival. At the same time, key issues that have been involved in almost all Iranian festivals have been typically addressed.
We would greatly appreciate if you could kindly agree to extend the time for its revised version forby two weeks.