I would like to tell you an anecdote while im looking at the mountains. Its related to the first time i traveled to lebanon to meet my uncle. Obviously, as you know, the nature is really awesome in. Argentina, there are a lot of mountains, seas and snow, so all of them are beautiful. Mountains are large in argentina, for example, the andian mountains that are limited in chile and are the longest in continent. The andian mountains are really beautiful. When i traveled to lebanon to see my uncle, i went to village and i saw very small mountain, the one that we could not even call a mountain. I was sitting with my uncle when he suddenly looked at that small mountain, which was not really. A mountain, then he looked at me saying, this poor person comes from argentina and has not seen such a mountain. He asked me, do you have such a mountain in argentina . Well, these are the things that happen. I am saheil assad, i came to mashad in the Islamic Republic of iran to participate in the millennial anniversary that i will explain later. Its a very nice of place here. The city is really interesting. Its really hot now, but during the. Year, the weather is great here, now is summer and the temperature is approximately 35 degrees at 1 00 in the afternoon. Hi, hi, how are you . Are you okay . Are you okay . Estamos ahora en una now were in a part of mashad where the weather is great. It is hot because we are in the middle of summer and its noon and the temperature is 40 degrees, but during the rest of the year the weather is fantastic here. We are in a place full of magnificent. Nature and a great view, so i hope youll enjoy it, este lugar, this is the cable car of the city, and it is called what is behind the mountain, im going to explain it to you. Hi, so i would like to see what is behind these mountains. Well we are in the street of pigeons, its a famous street in mashad because all these stores sell folls, birds and pigeons, and why pigeons . The pigeon is a bird that likes spiritual places very much. That is why imam rezas holy shrine is always full of pigeons and people usually take food for them. So im going to buy food and go to the haram, the holy shine of imam raza alaihi salam to feed the pigeons, سلام خسته نباشین احوال شما خوبالله. برای کبوتر خیلی خوبه چنده ایندار دست im taking their food with myself, now were saying goodbye to an old woman who came here to visit imam rizas holy shrine, helping sick and old people is one of the services at imam rizas holy shrine administration. Because the holy shrine is really big, so god reward us today for this work and service. واشهد ان محمددا عبده ورسوله وانه سيد الاولين والاخرين وانه سيد الانبياء والمرسلين اللهم صل على محمد عبدك ورسولك ونبيك وسيد خلقك اجمعين صلاه لا يقوى على this is museum. This is a particular museum of all the gifts given to the leader of the Islamic Republic of iran, sayad ali khamenei, it is a special museum of personalities, for example, museum of einstein, its about important personalities, they keep all the gifts given to say ali khamani here, this is a priceless museum of. خامنه ای اهدا شده نشون دهنده علاقه و ارادت همه کشورهای مختلف آمریکایی، آفریقاایی، اروپایی، کشورهای عربی و خود ایران هست به ایشون. این اثر، نفیزترین اثر بین آثار موجود در موزه قدایی آیت الله خامنه ای هستش. این اسم این هنر هنر معرق چوب هست. این هنر نوشته ها هنر منبت هست پازل قطعه قطعه کنار هم گذاشته. ۷ نفر دو سال روی این تابلو وقت گذاشتن. حدودترین تابللوی معرق چووب دنیاست. 30 types of different woods and two different artistic styles. Seven people spent two years working on this piece of art. It has 101,250 parts. Its a kind of puzzle, lets say a puzzle that was specially assembled to make this image, which is an image of carbala, an image where hussain alayhi salam and his family are bidding farewell. این یک فوسیله یک سنگواره استعنی تنه د درختیهه که با حرارت و فشار زمین تبدیل به سنگ شده سنگ عقیقه یک میلیون ساله است یکی از هنرهای سنتی ایران قلم زنیه این قلم زنی برجسته است روی فلز مصر بله این نقوشی که روی این کار شده مثلاً این نقش ما بهش میگیم بت جقه نچسبن به اینجو well were in front of the famous painting of an iranian artist mr. Fashtian, and the painting is called zamene ahu, which in persian means the one who saved the life of gazel. Here you can see imam rizalam next to a group of gazels, this is the mother gazel next to her calves. This is the hunter that the story begins when he comes with his dog to hunt this mother gazel, then this gazel escapes and takes refuge before imam rizalam. According to the story, the gazel starts talking to imam razalam and imam riza understands her language. She says i have children and i am breastfeeding them, i would not want to die so that my children do not deprive themselves of the milk from my breastts. Imam riza talks with the hunter and tells him, i assure you that i will bring back the mother gazel, but allow the gazel to breastfeed her children. Then the mother gazel breastfeeds her children and takes them to imam riza, when the hunter sees this miracle that imam riza issures the return of. خیلی تعداد هم زیاد هست با این حال رهبر ما آیت الله خامنه ای خیلی دل بزرگی داشتن که همه این هدایا رو هدیه کردن به عرب امام رضا علیه السلام خیلی این هدیه بشار اسد از سوریه است ترکیبی از چووب و صدف و آج فیل و آینه است این اهدای رئیس جمهور پاکستان غلام ساخانه ترکیبی از چووب و صدف و استخوان و برنزه معماری اینجا خیلی معماری نفیس و جالبی هست متعلق به ۴۷ سال قبله ۱۸ تا از معمارای خود ایران ترکیبی از هنر معماری اروپا و اسلامامی رو variety, youre looking at them saying, how can i have one of them . For example, this one, the museums curator told me that one simple stick can cost approximately 200 million to months or 50,000. I really would like to have one, but obviously i dont have 50,000 to buy it. It was nice visit. This museum is really wonderful, not only the construction and the art, but also the works of fue maravilloso, espero que ustedes tambien les haya gustado. Well were now in front of the biggest courtyard in imams holy shrine to roll out carpets, there are 11 carpets rolled out by these employees in the morning, noon and afternoon, so the pilgrims can say prayers, we are here to help them a little. مان خوش آمدید دعوت شده عزیزان من خوش آمدید. And now we are in imam rizas restaurant, every day there are 8,000 people who eat lunch and dinner here, it is full of people. People come here from different provinces and when they arrive here theyre invited to have free meals and this is one of the programs that the holy shrin of has provided for the pilgrims. There are different kinds of foods here, there can be three or four kinds generally speaking. Now we have vegetable main dish which is called warm sabzi in persian, and it is really famous. It is made with meat bowls, sometimes there is kebab, chicken. And make the long story short, there are different kinds of food here, this is the typical iranian food, in iran meals are always accompanied by rice, only in the morning is there no rice, but during the whole day iranians eat rice, rice is very famous meal. Well, as you can see, there are guests and pilgrims of imam razzas holy shrine from different provinces, so they have some cards or tickets to enter the restaurant, people who are from other countries enter with their pass. They can also be people who come from many kilometers far from other provinces and they have the chance eat here only once year. Well now im here eating and considering it a great privilege, around 20 Million People visit mash hat, as the restaurant tickets are limited, there are about few people out of 20 million who can come here, today it is our turn to eat food in this blessed restaurant. Everyone believes that eating here is a great blessing because it is the food of imam riza alaihi. Well, i am sohelil asad and we are here to celebrate the millennial birthday of imam riza alaihi. We are from different parts the world, around 60 countries, so we are entering the hall to begin the celebration of this very interesting. Were starting the anniversary of imam rizas birthday, it will start after the holy quran recitation, presenter of the program is about to start the event officially, as you can see, there are many people, the majority of the participants are iranians, but there are also people from Different Countries like africa, people from the arab world, lebanon, iraq, tunesia, russia, indonesia, albania, and many other countries. There are people from spain. As a spanishspeaking country and of course me from argentina, so we are at the beginning of imam rizas birthday y bueno yo de argentina, asi que estamos en el comienzo del cumpleano. Well, as you can see, all the people are celebrating the birthday of. One of the iranian traditions is celebrating the important events that are related to imams and leaders like this one, i mean they celebrate their birthday. At this time people prepare juice to be dispensed among the crowd to kind of juice that is really rich and taste, but i dont know what they call it. Its really delicious. Well were in the world of samovars. This is my friend ahmad. As you see, he owns a collection of samovars. Hes going to explain a little bit the name of the samovar, where it comes from, and what it is used for. خدمتتون عرض کنم که ما اینجا یک موزه ای داریم از سماورهای قدیمی و خدمتتون عرض کنم که فکر می کنم تو ایران منحصر به فرد باشه سماور یک کلمه روسه وظیفه سماور دم آوردن چای و شده یک عشریه عتیقه شده این سماوی که من اینجا دارم سعیل جان میشه گفت که خود روس این سماوره رو ندارن خیلی منحصر به فرده مدلهای مختلفیه اینا رو جمع کردیم طرحش خیلی منحصر به فرده سواری جان این سماور رو داریم ما مال قهوه خونه های قدیم بوده تو قوه خانه ها یا تو حسینیه ها از این سماور استفاده میشده ۲ تا شیر داشته برای اینکه زودتر چای سر بشه سماور بزرگ حسینیه ها بود اینو که نگاه می کنم میخوام کشور خودمو نشون بدم خدمتتون بله تا ببینیم هست یا نیست اینجاله البته نقشه دنیای قدیم قدیمه بله شما باید اطلاعات قدیم هم داشته باشید حالا ما ظاهراً اگه این قاره آمریکا باشه آرژانتینه ده با ما خیلی فاصله داره ولی دلتون نزدیکه به ما سلامت باشید خب می گفتید این شما غیر از کلکسیون سماوارارا چیز دیگه ما اینجا اشیایی که مربوط میشه به موزه های مردم شناساسی اونا رو جمعی کردم از قبیل رادیو گراممافون و خدمتتون عرض کنم که دوربین های عکاسی دوربین فیلمبرداری دیگه دررب های قدیمی لباس های سنتی قدیمی خیلی خوبه نقاشی های قهوه خانه ای ما تو ایران یک رسمی داریم به افتخار ورود مهمانمون معمولاً یک زنگی داریم ما تو زورخونه ها امده بفرماید به احترام ورود شما خیلی خوش آمدین خیلی خوش آمدین بله این سماورا مال بروجده بروجرد ایران توی دنیا خیلی سموراش منحصر به فرد و نامیه از جنس ورشو ساخته شده سمورهایی که بالا بود از برنج و از مصر ساخته شده ما سماوور نقرره هم داریم منتها اینا از ورشو ساخته شده محسنات نسبت به سماورهای روز حصلش اینه که اینا با چکش ساخته شده اونا کار غالب اینا چکشی به همین علت well now we say goodbye to the world of samovars, i was really impressed with how nice the samovars are, and i think someday im going to take one of these salavars as a souvenir to argentina because i really liked it. 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