Persepolis will cease to exist in less than a decade
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22-May-2011 (16 comments)


LONDON, (CAIS) -- The stones of the ancient city of Persepolis requires urgent attention to be protected otherwise it will be destroyed in less than a decade.


The penetration of rainwater inside the platform, which has formed a large pool, as well as the severe damp have caused the stonework to crack and crumble, particularly in the recent months, and within a few years the whole platform will collapse.


This is mainly due to the fact that the sewages-channels constructed by the Achaemenid engineers to direct the excess waters outside the platform have been blocked. In addition, due to the increase of subterranean waters generated from the lake formed behind theinfamous Sivand Dam has caused a severe rise in damp, to the extent that can be smelt and felt in the air.


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Simorgh5555

Persepolis will be gone in ten years

by Simorgh5555 on Sun May 22, 2011 05:14 AM PDT

So Iranians have something to cheer about because students are given multiple entry visas when the stones of Persepolis are being ruined?

Parsa (Persepolis), the main historical link to our Great Past is under threat from a Terrorist Regime which has spent alomost next to nothing maintaining this hisotrical site from elements and abuse by visiots and tourists in the last three decades.

The real culprit, irnoically, in my opinion, was the last Shah (as much as I hate to admit it) who spent millions on the Persepolis procession hosting dignitaries and buying breast of peacock from Maxim's in Paris when the money could have been better spent on building an enclosure over Persepolis. It would have cost a fraction of the 22 million dollars he spent on the occasion to fill the fat stomach of foreign head of governments who would either plot against him or refuse to allow him entry into their country after the revolution.

The Revolution happened and the new regime did not give a flying fuck about preserving it. Infact it almost sent its bulldozers to raze it. Now this Terror  regime has finally got its way. Wilful neglect is doing exactly what Khalkhali wanted to do years ago. 

This article has been made available for a number of days now? But does anyone bother reporting it? Does the stupid NIAC 'educational' organisation release a policy statement asking the IR Terror government to address the neglect?

I am ashamed of being Iranian. I really am. If Persepolis goes then the whole country can go into shit for all I care. If Persepolis is destroyed I say FUCK IRAN and nuke its people until it glows!  



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Darius Kadivar

Waterloo

by Darius Kadivar on Mon May 23, 2011 04:44 AM PDT


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پندارنیک

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by پندارنیک on Sun May 22, 2011 05:15 PM PDT

What draws me to this site is the tangible, immediate interests that without a moment of doubt stems from a common background which does not and should not go beyond one's personal experience and background........and let's be honest with each other....The majority of us on this site are a bunch of oldies living on, or against our memories. Here me and you might find something to agree though, because now we know why the Pahlavists are failing among the Iranian youth; quite naturally....... 

What Pot pot did was an act of criminal idealism and I don't know why on earth I have to have an answer for that.

Let's keep it between me, you, and the ruins of Persepolis.........

I do oppose your political views and all your unconditional Israel this Israel that kind of attitude of yours but I respect your point of view nonetheless......and I'm not up for long debates......I've already broken my record by a paragraph or two........till then.......

 


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Simorgh5555

Pendar

by Simorgh5555 on Sun May 22, 2011 04:42 PM PDT

Nationalism has no pkace in a modeern era? Hmmm didn't Trotsy, Lenin, Joe Stalin and Pol Pot and a whole array of dictators who burn down cathedrals, shrines and tried to eradicate the past say the same thing? If you arr not bias towards nationalism then what draws you to an Iranian website? You are inadvertently drawn to your own ethnic cluster whether you do so intentiinally or not.


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پندارنیک

Bidarnik is cool too.........

by پندارنیک on Sun May 22, 2011 04:12 PM PDT

I am not gonna promise you that I'll ransack the whole site to bring forward your own comment which you wrote about the goat and the orientalist, if and only if my memory serves me right, in reply to benross...........Any how....

My point is beyond all these things.........Yes, a proud YES......nationalism means nothing to me........I'm not saying it's totally counter productive or dysfunctional; but has no room in our modern era..........


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Veiled Prophet of Khorasan

Pendar

by Veiled Prophet of Khorasan on Sun May 22, 2011 04:07 PM PDT

 

Don't bother stressing yourself to "think". If you need to think to understand tha value of Persepolis you are no Iranian.


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Simorgh5555

bidarnik

by Simorgh5555 on Sun May 22, 2011 03:51 PM PDT

Your appaling attiitufe towards your national heritage perhaps can b explained by your ignorance. The ruins in Persepolis has long been known to have existed before they were excavated by the Oriental Institute in Chicago which is why Iranians have always referred to it as Takhte Jamshid in reference to the legendary Kiyanid kings of the Shahnameh fame. Part of Persepolis were still visible for centutied before the full archaelogical recovery. But like all all Iranian Leftists patriotism is worthless unless.it is Palestinian.


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Veiled Prophet of Khorasan

Simorgh

by Veiled Prophet of Khorasan on Sun May 22, 2011 03:41 PM PDT

You asked a Mulsim to:

Think before you speak

If you expect a Muslim to think then you are in for a surprise. The first requirement of Islam is to stop thinking. Now please set your expectations properly.

Thanks 

VPK


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پندارنیک

Heard that before....doesn't work.....

by پندارنیک on Sun May 22, 2011 03:38 PM PDT

Let me think now......Can you help me remember who said something about our historical ruins having been there all along, and we used to take our goats there to graze untill a European orientalist showed up and told us here.......look......this is your proud history.......(just paraphrased).........Let me think...........

 


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Simorgh5555

Think before you speak

by Simorgh5555 on Sun May 22, 2011 03:23 PM PDT

What kind of a mornic.comment is that? So dou you believe that the Lincoln Memorial or thr White House shoud be torn down to make houng estates? Why don't we graze all cemeteries and cremate the remains of dead peoole since they serve no benefit to.society and take up precious green space? Ancient ruins, as you call them remind us of who we are otherwise we will.continue to be mindless consumerists whose only comminity centre is a shopping mall or hospitals for eating too much.


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پندارنیک

Stupid me......

by پندارنیک on Sun May 22, 2011 03:13 PM PDT

I thought it was ruined centuries ago...........I'm in no mood for yet another apology, but I think with the present rate of growth in the world population all ancient sites and all golf courses have to be converted to something more useful.................Yes, shrines too...........


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Simorgh5555

Rastin

by Simorgh5555 on Sun May 22, 2011 02:57 PM PDT

Maybe it would have been better if the British Museum or the Louvre in France had stollen all of Persepolis. At least they appreciate what we stupid Iranians have let to be destroyed. KHAK BAR SARE IN MELAT.


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Veiled Prophet of Khorasan

Islam should be

by Veiled Prophet of Khorasan on Sun May 22, 2011 02:56 PM PDT

 

gone sooner the better for the whole human race. It holds nothing sacred except for its miserable cult. I promise you Islam will pay for this.


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Rastin

This breaks my heart

by Rastin on Sun May 22, 2011 02:28 PM PDT

This is a tragedy, an utter tragedy. I cannot begin to describe the hatred and sorrow in my heart I am feeling after seeing those pictures. Who on Earth are so cold and honourless to take historial sites and buildings hostage in this fight between government and people? Bisharafah. There are no words for this lack of empathy.

I feel like quitting graduate school this very minute, and go there. I would not know what to do from there on, but that shows the despair I am feeling.


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vildemose

Devestating news...

by vildemose on Sun May 22, 2011 01:42 PM PDT

Devestating news...


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mahmoudg

Egpytians move

by mahmoudg on Sun May 22, 2011 01:04 PM PDT

the tombs of their ancestor, yes pre islamic ancestors, to higher ground before building the Aswan dam back in 1960's and here in the 21st century the Arabs occupying our country are systematically destroying our pre-islamic greatness.  Travesty on a large scale which can only be stopped when the West decides to rid the world of these pests in Iran. 


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