Iran to cut ties with British Museum

[Galactic]

Well guys here's bit of something about Iran cut ties with British Museusm due to loan.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Iran said it will cut ties with the British Museum on Monday because of the museum's failure to lend Tehran an ancient Babylonian artifact described as the world's earliest bill of rights.

The spat over the loan has long festered between London and Tehran, and comes against the backdrop of increasingly tense Iranian-British relations.

Tehran is under heavy pressure from the West over its nuclear program, and has accused Britain and other foreign governments of interference in domestic policies and of stoking the country's postelection street protests.

The artifact is a 6th century B.C. clay tablet with an account in cuneiform of the conquest of Babylon by Persian King Cyrus the Great. It describes how Cyrus conquered Babylon in 539 B.C. and restored many of the people held captive by the Babylonians to their homelands.

Called the Cyrus Cylinder, it has been described by the U.N. Web site and elsewhere as the world's oldest human rights document

Here's more about this below

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ml_iran_british_museum

[Star of the Sea]

Just cutting their nose of to spite their face!

[Eldorado]

Bad idea to loan a country anything when you'll soon be dropping bombs on them.