Why Iran's grand ayatollahs are fighting over Rumi - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

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Oct 15, 2019

Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi, seen in a picture dated Sept. 11, 2013, is opposed to Iranian participation in an Iranian-Turkish movie about the 13th century Sufi poet Rumi. — Wikipedia/Mostafa Meraji

An Iranian woman poses for a picture on May 19, 2015, in front of the tomb of Cyrus II of Persia, known as Cyrus the Great, the founder of the Persian Achaemenid Empire in 6th century BCE in the town of Pasargadae, 135 kilometers north east of the southern city of shiraz. Under his rule, the Achaemenid Empire created the largest empire the world had yet seen. Cuneiform records from Babylon suggest that Cyrus died on 4 December 530 BCE, but according to the Greek historian, Herodotus, Cyrus was killed near t

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