The theft of Irans cultural heritage goes on, says an article by Iranian news website Tabnak.ir. The author of the article condemns the fact that Iranian tar (stringed musical instrument) was registered by UNESCO as cultural heritage of the Azerbaijani Republic in the presence of Iranian officials. It is very surprising and ridiculous that tar,...

Traditional Persian musical instrument Tar is slated to be registered on UNESCOs representative list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanities. Following the recent registration of Azerbaijani Tar on the world heritage list, Iran will offer the proposal for registering Persian Tar on the list. The name of instrument Tar, within the collection ...