there are zarastrian, iranians, there are christian iranians, there are iranian jews who practice theirthe way of their faith, so they tell me this was this is this is the water jug uh that people used to make in in ancient times here in iran now it's more of kind of decoration are you they really love tea in iran almost every every every moment they're they're pouring me some tea. and i'm drinking some tea, so and we have some traditional iranian clothing here, very, very nice. this is the this is a side of iran that we never really get to see in the united states, whenever we see images of iran, we see pictures of people waving guns around or military things, we never get to see this kind of cultural side of the iranian society, this this vast civilization, this vibrant civilization that that is uh, there's so much history about iran that that is never taught to... i'm looking for some traditional iranian clothes to wear while i'm here working on this film project so could you help me with that کار خیلی? ah, very nice, absolutely. oh, you have a changing room. oh, good, good, good. oh

there are zarastrian, iranians, there are christian iranians, there are iranian jews who practice theira in iran almost every every every moment there are there are bring me some tea and i'm drinking some tea, so and we have some traditional iranian clothing here, very, very nice, this is this is a side of iran that we never really get to see in the united states. whenever we see images of iran, we see pictures of people waving guns around or uh military things, we never get to see this kind of cultural side of the iranian society, you know, this this vast civilization, this vibrant civilization that that is uh, you know, there's so much history about iran that that is never taught to us in the united states. ah, this looks, i'm looking for some... it's very nice, very nice, i like it, so i should try this one now, i'm going to try this one on, very nice, very nice, yeah, i like it, very nice, very nice, yeah. looks good, i like it, think i'll take it, looks good, this and this, thank you very much, these doors. so now we're headed to one of the wealthier sections of the city here in te

uh five out of these uh 290 um are uh reserved for religious minorities like assyrians, jews and zarastrians and also armenians. now uh, the thing is that the interior ministry um stated that uh this year's election is going to be very tough because of the number of candidates, especially in a smaller cities, making it really competitive to win the votes. now um about the other thing that is very important is uh the number of seats uh that is allocated each province to run the capital holds the most number of seats and that is 39 uh compared to other. major cities such as sahan which is in the second place with 20, so this shows the importance of the capital. now moving to uh the uh assembly of experts um elections, hundreds of candidates are competing for 88 seats from all over iran. again, the tehran province um holds the most number of seats with 16 uh the other uh provinces come in the second and third place. "the next one on the list has only six, this again highlights the importance of the capital tehran. now uh, the uh significance of the assembly of experts, it's needless to say that