tv Documentary Nowruz The New Day PRESSTV March 20, 2024 9:02am-9:31am IRST
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it's so profoundly ingrained in iranian traditions, history and cultural memory that iranian identity and nourus have mutually buttressed each other from millennia. for ancient iranians, it presented a struggle between good. and evil on all planes, physical, moral and spiritual, with the total victory for the good. it ushers in the loveliest season of the year with joyous festivities. آمد بهار جان ها ای شاخه تر به رقسا. چون یوسف اندراه آمد مصر و شکر به رقصاه
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there is an abundance of material attributing the festival's founding to jamshid, the mythical king of iran. one well-known legend is the jamsheed was drawn through. air in a chariot by dives traveling in one day from damovan to babylon and people made this day face day on account of the wonder which they had seen during it and they amused themselves with swinging in order to imitate jamsheid in 1079 the selju sultan jalal malik shah established the julian style solar gear that fixes the...
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هم نداره خانم ما هم کار می کنن ما هم که آقایونم در خدمت خانم ها هستین. at the same time, people of every call and means go for the nuru shopping, by tradition, the iranians buy new clothes for the new year, buying large quantities of sweets, fruits and dry nuts or also top of the shopping list. today we came here to buy some things for noru's day and... and some gifts for our family, norsday is so interesting, we came here, people sell things here like such as shoes, bags, handbags and such as this fish, today we bought some nots and fighter fishes,
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lentals grown commonly on earthenware plate as a symbol of life and freshness. two: san jed or food of silverberry as a symbol of love and affection. three: seab or apples symbolizing health and fertility. for somak, a spice popular in the middle east, symbolizing happiness, patience and perseverance. five: sear or garlic clothes, as symbol of protection in the face of affliction sick or few newly minted coins symbolizing wealth and prosperity and seven a sweet paste made from germinated wheat and
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as soon as the year turns, family members get up and kiss each other and offer their greetings. senior members give junior members their gifts, usually new bank notes. customary congratulatory exclamations are, may your nurus be happy. may health, victory and prosperity be with you this year and many or a thousand years to come, and to the elders, may god save you for us. قشنگ ترین لحظه نوروز اول سال تحویله اول سال تحویل در
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کنار خانواده بودن در کنار همسر اگر فرزندندی داشته باشی فرزندندا دورت باشن و بعدشم بازدید پدر ماادرا i born in savatku but it's over 18 years we are living in us this is our first visit in iran everything is renewing you have seeen everywhere people they are wearing new clothes we collect lots of ad or lucky money.
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those families who are in morning usually visit the graves of the departed and pray then return home over the past. two three decades during noruz, some pay tribute to the fallen of the iraqi war against iraq, by going to regions once used to be frontlines where those iranian fighters lost their lives for the sake of their country. the following days are spent visiting friends going on pick. and traveling to other cities and countries.
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particularly favorite sites include shiraz, isfahan, mashad and other historic monuments as well as holy sanctuaries and shrines or the caspian or persian gulf resorts. children especially love nourus. they do not need to work or go to school, they wear new clothes, receive gifts and play various games,
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elaborate meals are cooked and large quantities of fruits, nuts, drinks and sweets consumed, people bit noru. نوروز همه قسمتاش خوبه به هر حال وقتی که سال نو میشه هوا خوبه تراوت شادابی مردم رو میبینید که به هر حال شاد هستن خوشحال هستن که علی رغم مشکلاتی که داشته باشن has been celebrated with considerable. amongst the nations of iranian background inhabiting other lands, namely the tajiks, afghans and kurds of iraq, syria and turkey. in tajikistan, particularly in the province
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that is, school holidays, visitation, exchange of gifts, partaking of sweets and fruits are much the same as in iran. all kurds celebrate nurus with enthusiasm even in. lands where their traditions do not meet with official sanction, everywhere bonfires are kindled and fireworks are accompanied by music, dancing, singing and picnicking.
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in fact, wherever iranian culture has gone, nouruse has gone with it. in indian control kashmir, for example, nouruse is celebrated with great ferber. and i'm coming from chennai, south part of india and this is my first trip to kashmir and so far it's been wonderful. kashmir is a great place to visit and it's a lifetime experience. or in the united states, iranians celebrate their fatherland's festival every year, sharing its soul, namely kindness with the rest of the people. for years, ahead of nourus, many
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iranians team up with charities to feed hundreds of homeless men, women and children in the us. well, i think when our nation is so divided right now, um, coming together and celebrating - a traditional event like this is important for everyone, it's important to the volunteers who are here to see what many of our brothers and sisters are living with. this is our seventh annual naruz at the midnight mission. uh, we'll probably serve a couple of thousand people at this event, but at the midnight mission we serve just under million. as you see here, these people are
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happy, so that means nouruse is the essence of iranian culture, on the one hand, it is closely tied to nature, without nature, the iranian's biggest. festival is meaningless, on the other hand, people make up for a bulk of nuruz festivities. the biggest gatherings of family and friends usually happen during this time. even people at odds with each other find noruz the best time for reconciliation.
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the headlines iran's leader congratulates the nation on the persian new year naming it as a surge and production through people's participation. israeli occupation forces attack aid seekers in northern gaza again, killing at least 30 of them as the overall death toll from the us-israely genocidal war tops 31,800, and the hamas leader accuses israel of sabotaging cease fire talks by deliberately targeting police officers and government officials in gaza.
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