Persia/Iran, the Bycantine Empire and othe Middle Eastern nations were great, prosperous and advanced before being subjugated by the Islamic hordes. Islam is a foreign cult imposed on Iranians by Arab conquerors.
Iran lived through a renaissance 1925-1979, because of the anti-islamist Pahlavi Shahs. How I miss those days...
A perfect example of the need to read History in order to lead, according to Prez Harrry Truman among others. This has been a skill lost after JFK's Profiles in Courage.
Todays Dims are more likely to pursue Profiles in Perfidity!
Islam is Arab cultural imperialism.
"Will the international community rush to rescue it?"
According to what I've read UNESCO and a team of international archeologists have been digging to try to unearth as much as possible before the area is flooded and the Iranian governement has said that Cyrus tomb would not be flooded.
This isn't the same as the statues of the Buddhas.
This is a country's government building a dam, which may or may not have ulterior motives, which may result in burying possible undiscovered antiquities. That's unfortunate, but we can't police every government and tell them where they can or can't build a road or a dam. I love history as much as the next person and losing pieces of history as a result is sad, but i don't know if I'd want France to come into the U.S. to tell us where we can or can't build a dam.
just my 2 cents
Cyrus was a wise and enlightened leader, true. But that is not necessarily the case with some of his descendants, Xerxes for instance.
Persia was a great civilization in its way, but it was a barbaric, imperial, tyrannical power. The Battle of Salamis was a turning point for all of western civilization, and especially for the western ideal of freedom.