Prevent auction of priceless Persepolis artifacts

Prevent auction of priceless Persepolis artifacts
by NIAC
26-Feb-2009
 

At a time of hope when President Barack Obama has commended our heritage, saying "The Iranian people are a great people, and Persian civilization is a great civilization," a court in Chicago is about to confiscate and auction off some of the most powerful symbols of this civilization: priceless artifacts from Takht-e-Jamshid.

By failing to gain reparations from the Iranian government, lawyers for victims of terrorist attacks in Israel are now in turn attacking the heritage of Iranian Americans.

The plaintiff's objective: seize these relics of our heritage and auction them off to the highest bidder like items sold on e-bay. "Maybe they'll end up on coffee tables around the country,' one lawyer for the plaintiffs mused.

This must be stopped. Ask President Obama to prevent the auction of our cultural heritage!

Balatarin
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Fred

Seperation of powers

by Fred on Thu Feb 26, 2009 08:53 AM PST

This is a cheap self promoting stunt by the NIAC lobby. The U.S. federal government has been and is active in defending the Iranian nation’s right of ownership and should the need arise it will use its executive power at the conclusion of the legal process.

Unlike the Islamist republic, U.S. is a nation of laws and the separation of powers are strictly enforced, executive, i.e. President cannot interfere in judicial proceedings, that is something NIAC lobby might want to remind its Islamist interlocutors to consider copying.

The NIAC lobby and its conjoined twin CASMII lobby should pressure the Islamist republic to stop training and funding terrorists all over the world. Their terror-centric policies have murdered countless innocent Iranians and of other nationalities putting Iranian assets in the crosshair of many grieving relatives looking to exact punitive measures. 

 It all boils down to Iranian national interests being jeopardized by the messianic Islamists till the very moment they are done away with.  


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