It is now clear that Iran’s first Nobel Prize medal would have been safer if it had stayed in Norway. Iranians now have to raise $410,000 to ransom this historic symbol from the IRI, and move it someplace where it can’t be thrown in the fire of politics. By the way, the Cyrus Cylinder better stay in the British Musem. Four hundred grand for the medal we can probably cough up; what it would cost to rescue the Cyrus Cylinder, who knows?
