Reminds me of the Taliban blowing up those buddas right before 9/11
YES!
"It's believed that the Islamic regime's decision to destroy Cyrus' tomb "
These people are below pigs, real barbarians and savages.
This is the face of the kind of lunacy we are confronting - or NOT confronting.
I'd gladly put a bomb right in the middle of Tehran to stop this kind of desecration -and so - I imagine, would a good many Iranians.
Cyrus the Great was a Zoroastrian - the first monotheistic religion.
Mohammad's ancestors were chasing camles around the Arabian desert when Cyrus was building palaces, temples and monuments.
Its like Planet of the Apes over there!
This might turn out quite differently.
Unless the sandmaggots start blowing up each persian national treasure, they might discover that that dam dam may be harder to build and take much longer than planned; hundreds of years, even.
You gotta be kidding me! (not you, them) This is far worse than the Buddhas in Afghanistan. Cyrus positively touched the cultures of most of the current world: everybody in that region, plus Christians and Jews worldwide. Of course they'd want to destroy the memory of the father of human rights.
This is despicable.
Why do the important landmarks have to belong on the lands occupied by idiots?
A country or culture that does not remember or honor its past has no future.