Shi'ite Shrine At Persepolis Sparks Row Over Iran's Heritage
The ancient ruins of Persepolis is one of Iran's 22 UNESCO World Heritage sites. With more than 10,000 religious shrines dotting Iran to mark where descendants of Shi'ite Islam's most revered imams are said to have been buried, many of them go unnoticed. But one of these so-called imamzadeh sanctums recently caught the eye of a passerby who, in a video, questioned its proximity to a globally recognized legacy of Iran's pre-Islamic past, the ruins of Persepolis. His video and the resulting debate highlighted the pride that Iranians take in ...
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