Iran's Vice President Threatens the British Museum
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LONDON, (CAIS) -- The Islamic Republic vice president who is also the director of Iran’s Cultural Heritage and Tourism Organisation (ICHTO) has threatened to cease the cooperation between the National Museum in Tehran and the British Museum in London, if the Cyrus the Great Cylinder is not loaned to Iran, reported the Persian service of the Aryan Heritage (Miras-e Ariya) on Wednesday.
While visiting the Iran’s National Museum, Hamid Baqaee told journalists: “The BM uses the current political situation in Iran as an excuse not to loan the cylinder to the National Museum.”
He continued “If the BM continues creating different excuses for not loaning the artefact to NM, we will cease cooperation in the field of archaeological expeditions and research with them.”
The Islamic Republic back in 2005, requested the BM to loan the Cyrus the Great Cylinder for a limited period of time to Iran for an exhibition.
The cylinder is considered by many researchers and historians as the world’s first charter of human rights, and has a special place in the hearts and minds of Iranian peoples.
The Islamic republic since coming to power in 1979 has been waging a war against pre-Islamic Iran and in particular the figure of Cyrus the Great. The request for the loan is however raising suspicion inside and outside Iran, as to why the clerical regime who insults the man who Iranians consider him as “The Father of the Iranian nation” as a “homosexual-Jew-Lover”; - or builds a dam so close to the Cyrus’s capital to ensure its destruction within few decades; – or calling the discovered bones in the cavity of the ceiling of his mausoleum as the “bones of a dog”; destroy Iran’s national heritage under the guise of developments, wishes to borrow this invaluable artefact.
Many believe this irreplaceable artefact should not be loaned to Iran, as its safety is impossible to guarantee.
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... Let us all put few hundreds atomic Bomb in four corners of the world and get this whole BS over with.All of us are thieves Brits Persians Americans Greeks Chines Russian Indian and every other race on this planet.Who is out there that could claim they are fare to everything and everyone and does what Cyrus stood for? You all know who we are and stop BS-ing eachother. |
Cyrus The Great wouldnt be happy about this
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Cyrus The Great wouldnt be happy about this Cyrus The Great wouldnt be happy about this |
Nameless
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... This tressure belongs to the people of the world NOT iran. With the post election violence the way it is, the artefact should stay where it is safe and can be viewed by all peoples. The British Museum is keeping this artefact safe. Look what the taliban did to priceless artefacts, this is just one example of why an unstable country shouldnt be trusted with something of such importance. |
Yek Irani
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In regime sharm o hayaa nadareh iN regime sheytani eslami aslan sharm or hayaa nadaareh va vaseh miraase farhangi maa iraanihaa arzeshi qael nist. Engelstan nabaayesti ke in manshur va sanade meli iranian raa be in regime zed e irani qarz bedeh. baa sepaas as inke khaarejihaa ro motale mikonid az ozaa va ahvaale iran zakhmi va mehrabaaneman. payaande iran and zendeh baad perdar-e iranian, koorosh Bozorg. |
Sina M.
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If this comes home we never see it again Ahreman is right, if this comes home we never see this agian! If English give this to Mollahs it is like stabbing Iranians in the heart. Mollahs dont like our father. English you have to wait for the regime to change and then give us. Thank you. |
Ahreman
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Loan = Destoying the cylinder Hi. Thanks for news. You are absolutly right - if BM loans the cylinder to Mullahs, they most definitly will destroy it. |
