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Yerevan’s Blue Mosque to Be Submitted for UNESCO Heritage Site Consideration

YEREVAN (A.W.)—Armenia will officially submit Yerevan’s Blue Mosque for consideration for UNESCO’s (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) World Heritage Site List, according to Deputy Head of Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicraft, and Tourism Organization (ICHTO) Mohammad Hossein Talebian. Talebian told reporters on Monday that Iran has

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  1. Luckily, for this application, Armenia is not in Europe – so all the usual on-paper obligations and rules for a nomination to be successful, such as the monument having historical integrity and existing in a properly conserved state (not an Iranian-style “renovation”), do not apply in the reality of UNESCO being a political club rather than an educational and cultural preservation organisation. No doubt we will also be hearing the “monument to religious tolerance” nonsense because that worked for the Turks for Ani, A reward is also surely overdue from UNESCO for Armenia no longer pressuring UNESCO over its silence on Jugha’s destruction. UNESCO is mostly back-scratching and politicking – any actual cultural activities it engages in are a sideline.

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