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Unesco urges US, Iran to protect cultural sites


January 7, 2020

PARIS: Both Iran and the United States must observe a convention obliging states to preserve cultural sites, the UN’s cultural agency said on Monday, after President Donald Trump threatened to target Iran’s cultural heritage. Unesco director general Audrey Azoulay highlighted that both Tehran and Washington had signed a 1972 convention prohibiting states from taking “any deliberate measures which might damage …

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