Tomb of Cyrus the Great

Arabo-Muslims face a meteorite in Mecca (Saudi Arabia) when they pray.
Iranians face the tomb of Cyrus the Great.
True descendants of Cyrus are awakening.

Celebrations of 2500 Years of Monarchy in Iran/Persia (1971)

Military honors at the tomb of Cyrus the Great

See my photo collection on this magnificent event by clicking HERE.

Islamic Republic set to destroy Iran's pre-Islamic heritage!

Islamic Republic's Animosity towards Pre-Islamic Iran, has Overruled Critics and Started Filling the Sivand Dam that will Drown 137 Archaeological Sites and Would Threaten the Mausoleum of Cyrus the Great!

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Demonstrations against the Sivand Dam, Iran

Help save humanity's cultural heritage from Islamists!

Sivand Dam - Bolaghi Gorge

Tange-Bolaghi is an area next to Pasargarde city which is largely unexcavated and which contains hundreds of identified cultural heritage sites (which need to be excavated) which will be SUBMERGED once the dam is in operation! (see the map which there's a link to below). Many thousands-year old artifacts have been discovered in this area amongst them remains of three Achamenid palaces - one attributed to Darius the Great has been in the past month or two! The flooding of the valley will result not only in a national cultural loss but a loss to humankind because afterall this is part of human heritage! Fringes of Pasargarde will also be submerged in water as the map clearly points out - which leads to a potential threat of humidity-damage affecting the Tomb of Cyrus the Great!

It is a FACT that this dam will FLOOD an immense un-excavated area containing invaluable traces of our cultural heritage! and the fact that it can potentially damage Cyrus' tomb is enough for this issue to be taken seriously!

Here are links from the Islamic Republic's own self-proclaimed "Cultural Heritage News Agency":

New Challenges on the Way of Inundation of Sivand Dam
http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=6986

Oppositions to Inundation of Sivand Dam Still Continue
http://www.chnpress.com/news/?Section=2&id=6999

UNESCO and Heritage Experts to Hold a Meeting on Sivand Dam
http://www.chnpress.com/news/?Section=2&id=7055

Dam is threat to Iran's heritage - Unesco appeals for help as ancient sites face being flooded
http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story...378845,00.html

Mulla Sadra Dam begins devouring ancient sites in southern Iran
http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=347422

Salman-e Farsi Dam to Submerge a Sassanid City
http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=7059

The latest pictures from Bolaghi Gorge (February 2007)
http://savepasargad.com/News/tasvir&...%20bolaghi.htm

Google map-overview (Sivand Dam):
http://www.cais-soas.com/CAIS/Images...erial_view.jpg
http://www.fmsokhan.com/archives/sivand.html

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Dr. Peiman Yusofi Azari, the head of the Iranian Forestry Office: The loss that will be caused by the Sivand Dam cannot be compensated by new forestation. Sivand Dam will destroy natural environment, agriculture and archaeological treasures of Bolaghi gorge and Pasargad plains. It also might destroy the mausoleum of Cyrus the Great Bolaghi Gorge is one of the most important archeological site in Fars province of Iran that will be drowned after the flooding of Sivand Dam

Zoroaster’s Kaba, a Potential Victim of Railway Construction
http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=6833

Railway Likely to Knock Persepolis Off UNESCO’s List
http://www.chnpress.com/news/?Section=2&id=6793

Cultural genocide in the name of Islam
http://savepasargad.com/aa.from%2009...he_name_of.htm


You can visit these sites for cultural heritage news:

The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies (CAIS)
News Updates:
http://www.cais-soas.com/NewsUpdate.htm
Archives:
http://www.cais-soas.com/News/archae...s_bulletin.htm
Special Section on Sivand Dam:
http://www.cais-soas.com/News/Sivand/sivand_news.htm

Cultural Heritage News Agency (CHN)
http://www.chnpress.com/heritage/?s=2

Save Pasargad Commitee
Persian section:
http://savepasargad.com/
English section:
http://savepasargad.com/european_languages.htm

Islamic Regime Spends US$420.000 in Construction of Toilets in Iraq!

In the early days after the Islamist takeover of Iran in 1979-1980 the Mullah's were going to demolish PERSEPOLIS -which is SACRED GROUND for any true Iranian- with bulldozers! Mullah Khalkhali and a group of Islamist thugs were onsite and ready to carry out their orders. If it wasn't for a brave group of Shirazi compatriots who defended that SACRED GROUND from the hands of these TAAZI's there would be no Persepolis left!

See back then, it was just after the Islamist takeover and people's stomach's were still full from what Shah and the Iranian Government had given this ungrateful people which enabled them to carry out this kind of protest action - but today, if the mullah's decide to go ahead with their Sivand Dam project, which will flood an immense area filled with our cultural heritage, none would be able to even object! let alone carry out any kind of protest action! they are too busy SURVIVING!

I get goose bumps just thinking of how much of Iran's (our!) cultural heritage these Muslims have quitely destroyed, in these past 27 years, without any resistance by the Iranian Nation!

Mullah's are descendants of Mohammad the Arab! They do not have any feelings towards Iran! When will this nation understand this!? When they spend millions of dollars on Mosque lavatories in Najaf and Karbala in Iraq whilst Iranian cultural heritage sites are being neglected, is it really that difficult to conclude where their loyalties lie!?!

OUR CULTURAL HERITAGE SITES ARE IRREPLACABLE! I hope everyone understands this! I hope the Iranian Nation understands this!


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ICHHTO Short of Funds and Islamic Regime Spends US$420.000 in Construction of Toilets in Iraq
07 October 2006

http://www.cais-soas.com/News/2006/O...7-10-ichto.htm


LONDON, (CAIS) -- Nearly 3,800 Iranian historic venues have been registered on the National Heritage List over the past year.

Head of Iran Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization (ICHHTO), Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, made the remark while presenting a report on his one-year record since he took office last year.

He predicted that another 780 ancient sites would be listed as national heritage by the yearend (March 20, 2007). The official put the total number of registered sites at 16,400.

Rahim Mashaei was quoted by the Persian daily Jaam-e Jam as saying that close to 28 billion rials has (US$ 2.94 million) been allocated for restoring old textures.

“Even if the current budget is doubled, it would fall short of requirements,“ he stated.

This claim came amidst of a news by the Persian service of ISNA on October 1st, that the Islamic Regime is spending millions of Iranian dollars on Iraqi religious buildings.

According to ISNA, the Islamic Regime has contributed 4 billion rials (US$420,000) for the construction of a sanitation system for ablution and toilets in Na'l-Jin street, near the tomb of Hussain (3rd Shi'a imam) in Karbala, to be used by visitors during the Islamic month of Ramadhan; this is while Persepolis lacks 3 billion rials (US$ 315,000) to carry out urgent restoration works, in which the authorities in charge of the historical edifice are humbling themselves for handouts

According to the report, the cost of retiling and masonry of the tomb of the 11th shi'a imam in Kazamain (in Iraq) have cost Iranians 15 billion rials (US$1.57 million).

The regime is also constructing "the Apron of Fatimja Al-Zahra", an extravagant 35,0002 two story extension in Ali's (first Shi'a Imam) tomb complex in the Iraqi city of Najaf, which its' massive cost has not yet been declared.


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