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Monday, February 8
February 8, 2010

 Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts, and Tourism Organization announced that it has cut ties with the British Museum over the Cyrus Cylinder. The British Museum had promised to loan the cylinder, said to be the world’s earliest charter of human rights, to the National Museum in Tehran, but delayed sending it when political protests erupted last […]

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