WANA (Mar 04) – The spokesperson for Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, reacting to the damage inflicted on Golestan Palace during a U.S. and Israeli missile strike on Iran, wrote that the objective of the American and Israeli aggressors is to erase Iran’s cultural heritage as the “cradle of ancient history and civilization.”

 

Esmaeil Baghaei, spokesperson for Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, reposted a video of Seyed Reza Salehi Amiri, Minister of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts, visiting Golestan Palace, which sustained serious damage in the American and Israeli missile attack. In a message on X (formerly Twitter), he wrote:

 

“The missile attack on the historic Arg Square area in Tehran, which caused damage to Golestan Palace—one of the most enduring symbols of Iran’s capital and a UNESCO World Heritage site—constitutes a horrific crime aimed at erasing Iran’s cultural heritage, this cradle of ancient history and civilization.

 

Under the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, the 1977 Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions, the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, and established principles of international law, any attack by the United States and Israel against Iran’s historical sites and cultural heritage constitutes a grave violation of international humanitarian law and a clear example of a war crime.”

 

Airstrike on Tehran Damages Golestan Palace, UNESCO World Heritage Site

WANA (Mar 02) – In a nighttime attack by the United States and Israel on Arg Square in central Tehran, parts of Golestan Palace, the capital’s only UNESCO World Heritage site, were damaged. This was reported by Shiava Abshenas, a Sputnik correspondent in Tehran.   Golestan Palace is a historic complex of buildings and gardens […]

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