Strikes on Iran Damage Cultural Heritage Sites, Infuriating Iranians [View all]
Source: NYT
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"The images of renowned historic sites shattered by missiles has left many Iranians enraged. In interviews and in posts on social media, some are asking how a war waged by Israel and the United States supposedly against the Islamic republic’s government and military has ended up damaging their cultural identity and sites.
... A spokeswoman for UNESCO, the United Nations agency that seeks to protect global culture, said her organization had been able to verify damage at several World Heritage sites in Iran. They include the Golestan Palace; the Chehel Sotoun pavilion of the Persian Garden, the Masjed‑e Jameh of Isfahan, as well as on buildings located near the buffer zone of the prehistoric sites of the Khorramabad Valley.
... The strikes are damaging sites that have remained standing though history’s upheavals. They made it through centuries of different monarchs, of invasions, coups, World War II, the Islamic Revolution, an eight-year war with Iraq and waves of uprisings against the current government.
... Iran’s Red Crescent Society said Tuesday that since the start of the war on Feb. 28, almost 10,000 civilian structures had been destroyed or damaged in airstrikes. Of those, it said, 7,493 were residential; 1,617 commercial; 32 medical and pharmaceutical facilities; 65 schools and educational sites. Thirteen, it said, belonged to the Red Crescent..."
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