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Robert Bandanza
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TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran's National Museum on Saturday cut ties with the British Museum in protest at the delayed implementation of an agreement held earlier between the two sides on sending the Cyrus Cylinder to Iran.

"Now Iran's Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization (ICHHTO) (as supervisor of Iran's National Museum) makes this official announcement that it will have no relations with the British Museum as of Sunday," Iranian Vice-President and ICHHTO Head Hamid Baqaei said in a press conference here in Tehran this afternoon.

Baqaei said that Iran plans to send letters to the world museums to inform them of the political drives of the British museum.

"Iran will send letters to all world museums to caution them about the consequences of signing agreements with the British Museum before receiving relevant confirmations from the British foreign office as the Museum's measures are based on political motives," he said.

The official further pointed out that Iran has spent an approximate sum of $200,000 to enhance security systems at its National Museum in accordance to the agreement signed with the British Museum, and said the ICHHTO plans to lodge a complain with the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to make the British Museum compensate Iran for the losses it has sustained in this regard.

Baqaei warned the British Museum against the grave consequences of its action against Iran, stressing that the British side will have to sustain huge losses as Iran will not allow British exploration and archeology teams to visit the country and it will stop holding seminars and exhibitions in Britain.

Earlier in October, ICHHTO Spokesman Hassan Mohseni said that after talks between the Keeper of the British Museum on the Middle-East section John Curtis and the Iranian officials, two sides agreed to display the cylinder in Iran for four months from January 16.

Mohseni further stated that the two sides had also reached an agreement on packaging, protection and insurance of the artifact.

The Iranian cylinder was discovered in 1879 and it is now being kept in the ancient Iran section of the British Museum.

The clay cylinder is inscribed in Babylonian cuneiform with an account by Cyrus II, king of Persia (559-530 BC). The Cyrus Cylinder is described as the world's first charter of human rights.

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Posted : 06/02/2010 4:23 pm
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