TEHRAN - Iran accused the British Museum on Monday of breaking a promise to lend it an artefact relating to Cyrus of Persia's conquest of Babylon in the 6th century BC. Foreign Ministry spokesman Hassan Qashqavi warned of wider harm to archaeological cooperation between London and Tehran if the British Museum did not allow public display of the so-called Cyrus Cylinder in Iran. A museum...
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