UNESCO warns of damage to ‘priceless’ Iranian heritage sites

Oil prices skyrocketing and the Strait of Hormuz still effectively closed to most traffic as the war against Iran goes into its second month with casualties mounting on all sides, neighborhoods crushed, and some of Iran's 2,000-year-old history is also being destroyed. Palaces, a mosque, and more now in shambles, and a historic square littered with debris. In Tehran, one of the country's most treasured historic buildings, the Golestan Palace, known as the Versailles of Persia, its hall of antique mirrors an ...