[blam]

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[farmfriend]

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[cavtrooper21]

Yep, all the bad things that all good mooslimbs hate...
Freedom
Civil rights
No looting, raping or pillaging.
and just generaly been decent...
I can see why the regime in Iran doesn't want it brought back.

[wagglebee]

Sort of like the Code of Hammurabi in Babylon (Iraq). The "Cradle of Civilization" has been relegated to barbarism and worthlessness all because of a hateful religion.

[Unam Sanctam]

The same Bamiyan-blasting mentality of the Taliban rears its ugly head. The mullahs are against civilization, culture and history.

[lonevoice]

How can the National Museum of Iran guarantee the safety of the cylinder?

[PokeyJoe]

Iran Air planes have "The Airline of the Islamic Republic of Iran" painted on their sides, but their tailplanes are decorated with the winged, goblin-faced Homa – pagan guardian of travellers.

By the way, did you know that Iran Air has a terminal in Toronto with direct flights to Tehran, opened February 2003?

[lizma]

These peoples remind me of the Euros.

So hungry to latch on to the past, so willing to ignore their future

[freedom44]

Tomb of Cyrus the Great in Iran. The Islamic Republic have neglected Persepolis - the Capital of the Persian Empire angering Iranians.

[JimSEA]

Instead he wrote his charter, the Cyrus cylinder, declaring that each man would be free to worship his own gods, no race would oppress another and no man would be enslaved.

Unfortunatly, as in China, Burma and Pakistan among other locations, the past has little relevance to the present.

[Russian Sage]

Jomhuri-ye Eslami drew a parallel between the museum's loan and an infamous parade at the ruins of the city of Persepolis in 1971, when the Shah reviewed a march-past of troops clad in ancient robes.

I have this image in my mind of Bush reviewing our soldiers in nickers and a three corner hat.

[SunkenCiv]

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[Dustbunny]

The controversial relic is an unassuming 23-centimetre-long (9-inch) cylinder of baked clay covered in densely packed lines of Babylonian cuneiform script

Wonder what it looks like?