An American scholar who asked to be buried in the central Iranian city of Isfahan has been called “Western garbage” and a “CIA spy” by a local cleric amid an uproar by hard-liners who oppose the planned interment in the Islamic republic. “The people of Isfahan will not allow authorities to bury the body […]
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Officials enlisted to allow American scholar’s burial in Iran
The chairman of the Great Islamic Encyclopedia has written to the Iranian president, the foreign minister and the Isfahan governor to facilitate the burial of Richard Fyre and the building of his mausoleum on Khajoo Bridge in Isfahan. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has reacted to the letter and called on the president’s […]
MP requests permit to let U.S. scholar be buried in Iran
Ali Motahari, a member of the Iranian Parliament’s Cultural Commission, has called on the government to issue a permit to allow Richard Nelson Frye, the recently deceased American scholar and expert on Iranian and Central Asian Studies, to be buried in Isfahan. Ali Motahari addressed Parliament on April 10, calling on the administration of […]