routine is the worst enemy of the human being. it makes us not being able to see the beautiful things that are surrounding us. it makes us not realizing the good things that are happening in our lives. while we continue are sometimes not exciting and so-called modern life. some people come to remind us of the treasures we have. and remove the dust of

oblivion of the jewels that we keep in the basement of our houses. lena is a german girl who recently published a book called behind the closed curtains, which reminds us that it is possible to dust off our traditional home elements, remodel them and give them a modern look and create daring, bold and lively. interior design, what leno has recorded in her book is only sample of the historical background of using decorations in iranian interior design and architecture, which is rooted in combination of iranian culture, religion and art, and it has evolved as time passes by. as matter of fact, iranian houses were a place for development of spirit and physical calmness. there is one thing in

common between us and lenna. we both use this camera to record interesting events and life stories. linna and her team traveled all over iran and took their camera behind the closed curtains of iranian houses. they shot photos and recorded lifestyles, decorations and designs. that are somehow modern, but have roots in our history, something that was not possible a couple of hundred years ago, but lena wants to make sure she produces something that can be used as a reference for future generations, something that shows where and how some iranians lived in the 21st century. i was a student of middle eastern starties politics um back in germany and um of was learning some farcy. farcy of the books

and uh i wanted to learn the proper farcy of of the streets and really get to know the country itself. so while traveling in iran um i understood that okay some there is something in iran we don't have. uh that way so much we also have it in europe but not in that way uh which is handicrafts. um so what i understood is like okay handicrafts that's something everyone can relate to because it is interior design it is decoration everyone has house you have to decorate so that's where i started i thought okay also in iran there will be

people who decorate the house and decorate them in a nice way, even if they are probably not interior designers. what makes iranian decorative elements more special is that they're timeless, you always find some shining aspects in them, something to fall in love with. i think it's really cool when you're um mixing something from old and um bringing it in into the modernity. um so this is for example what what morteza did here with these hennor stones which are traditionally used uh to paint the or you place the feed on it um the night before you getting married and then you got the hannah painted on the feet um so this was was the original use but what mortiza did he copied them um and used them as basically the feet for a coffee table. it is used out of outside

of the religious context, it's decoration, uh, and i think is really beautiful and impressive piece, especially. of course with all the feathers in this um pink fleshy color contrasting to the white of the house uh any evaying culture mean there is um the flower as topic is really important so um what we see here is like a l um actually it's a light um which means also in persian um the the flower and here i think it's really nice the shape you find them throughout iran um these either candles or now is also the work with electricity um, but it's a it's a soft shape, so um again it's a curve like in iranian architecture you find a lot. amid hussein is

an iranian artist inspired by his roots. what is more felt at his house is daring innovation that definitely comes from a character full of taste and art. داره اینه که پامونونو می ذاریم تو آب حوز و اینکه خب به هر حال از یه صوتی از یه صدای آبی هم لذت می بریم و با همدیگه گپ و گفت می کنیم و خب یه تایمی رو بهترین نحو ممکنه میگذرانیم چون اینجور امکانات وجود داشته دیگه برمی گشته به خلاقیت اون افرادی که استفاده کننده یه همچین

امکاناتی بودن ما الان ترجیح میدیم که تو این دوره زمونه این شکلی از حوزهمون استفاده بکنیم تا اینکه حالا فقط یه center yard with pond in a middle which is surrounded by rooms with different usages during different seasons of year. at the first glance you think this is a typical iranian traditional house. but for sure it is nothing like my grandparents house. from what i remember, many decorative and architectural elements are the same, but they're being used very differently, and this creativity is certainly part of the beauty of this. خب این

نرده ها الان همین که میبینین پایه قلیونه. این ترکیب و این کلاج کنار هم این موتیفها و این متریالا انقدر. من جذاب بود که دوست داشتم تو تکرار به رخ بیننده کشیده بشه خب هیچ تکراری هم بهتر از نرده نمیتون پیدا بکنه. not a piece of cake, especially when you're looking for some very unique items that are infused with. person culture and our traditions, but remember that there's an artist inside of every one of us, an artist that knows what is beautiful and what is not, an artist that knows how to put things together, but we don't necessarily have the creativity to make these decorative items,

and for that reason people in places like here made our lives easy, you just need to come here and see all these beautiful items, pick what you love, make sure that it goes good with your other stuff and make sure that it fits your personality. stores like this are the results of a recently started movement by some young iranians who renovate old houses and decorate them with antique-like and traditional decorative items. i'm very inspired by all these amazing stuff and looking forward to use them to decorate my own house sometime soon. i should say this is the happiest day of my. guys, because i have published a book on interior design in iran uh, and this is the final day, the the book presentation, um, i feel super happy, i am super exhausted too, because it has been hard work, um, i've gone through lot

of ups and downs in the last eight months, but i feel proud to now say, okay, i publish the book, this is the book, and i'm a writer. and i've done something for iran, a country i really love, and i started with the purpose to show a different iran to the world, and i think i, i achieved it. and iran is a mysterious land, every corner of it and every aspect of it is a book with thousands of pages with beautiful images and amazing stories. for iran.

abu hussein iraqi intifather shabaniya during saddam hussein's regime by abu hussein. اللي ما يروح يلتحق بالجيش لو يقص اذانه لو يقتلوه يعني ايران بالنسبه لنا كشيعه وعايشين برا بالخارج يعني تحس اكو فرد اتصال روحي بينك وبين هالبلد هذا يعني لانه شيعه وبيها الامام الرضا سلام الله عليه see the story of a man who is recounting the tales from the recent past.

writer, screenwriter, translator, theater director, university professor, television and cinema actor and member of iran's academy of persian. language and literature born in sanandaj, ph.d. in performing arts. his main preoccupation is cultural and artistic theater, through which he shows the issues of his time in the form of art. stay with us to take a look at the life of the iranian artist.

what's going on everyone, here back with another episode of iran tech and i'm back here at the atomic energy organization of iran where we've covered a lot from how the reactor works to what happens within the core the reactor that is submerged in a pool of heavy. water to how we get the radio isotopes from within the core of the reactor, but we may have missed a crucial step in between, which is what do we do with the water that surrounds the core of the reactor that gets eventually saturated with radioactivity and can no longer function the way it used to, because the water is needed partially for the safety of uh the operators within the nuclear facility, because it absorbs a lot of the neutrons that is resulted as the core of the reactor just simply... operates uh, but we can't just get rid of that water by just dumping it somewhere.