I am currently re-reading Ibn Warraq's Why I Am Not a Muslim, and had just finished a section dealing with the Muslim conquest of non-Arab cultures and the attempted conversion/denial/eradication of pre-Muhammad history when I saw this at Iran Focus:
Iran dam said to threaten ancient sites
By ALI AKBAR DAREINI, Associated Press Writer
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iranian engineers began filling a new dam Thursday as archaeologists warned that its reservoir will flood newly discovered antiquities and could damage Iran's grandest site, the ancient Persian capital of Persepolis.
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Iranian state-run television said the dam was opened "on the order of the President" Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but the hard-line Iranian leader did not attend the inauguration.
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Both Persepolis and Pasargadae, only 19 miles and 5 miles away from the dam, are on UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites.
Iran's Islamic-oriented government has not shown much concern for cultural sites from the Persian era, unlike the country's more recent Muslim monuments.
Read it all.
Pasargadae and Persepolis at Wikipedia.
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