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Golestan Palace was built in 1388. It survived the Mongols, the Afghans, and eight years of war with Iraq. On day two of this war, its Hall of Mirrors became a carpet of glass. In Isfahan, a bomb cracked a 17th-century fresco that recorded the moment a defeated Mughal emperor was given shelter by a Persian shah. That painting belonged to both civilisations. Across the country, over 120 museums, palaces, mosques, and prehistoric sites have been damaged in 33 days. This was despite UNESCO sharing the coordinates of every one of them before the first strike. Photo credits: @MarioNawfal · @tourajdaryaee · @adventureiran · @mughal_ideology (Instagram) Sources: Blue Shield International Visual content used for news reporting and public interest. Copyright remains with original creators. For removal: newsdesk@nwsfacts.com #HeritageUnderAttack #IranWar‌ #CulturalHeritage #UNESCO #GolestanPalace #Isfahan #ChehelSotoun #MughalHistory #MiddleEast #IranConflict #HagueConvention #BlueShield #Heritage #Archaeology #NWS

Thirty-three days after Operation Epic Fury and Operation Lion’s Roar began, the war has outgrown the men who planned it and the targets they named. Cast at the start as a strike on military infrastructure, it has left the Middle East counting its dead in schoolyards, hospital wards and broken homes, across Iran, Israel and Lebanon, and across the wider belt of violence stretching through Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Turkey, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The civilians killed were absent from the stated design of the campaign, yet they now stand at its center, written into the war’s daily language by force of number and grief. #MiddleEastConflict #IranIsrael #GulfTensions #WarInMiddleEast #IsraelIranWar

Every April 1st the world makes jokes. On the same date, nations were born, wars began and a garage became the most valuable company on earth. History never got the memo. #NotAJoke #NWS

Not everything on April 1st is a joke. Some of it changed the world. For more follow: @NWS_Network

Iran, 1979. The day a revolution rewrote the map of the Middle East forever.

April 1st. The one day nobody takes seriously. Maybe you should. A thread. 🧵