Masoud Soltanifar, Head of Cultural Heritage Organization, told the meeting that registration of 49 Iranian historical monuments would need 40 years of working, since UNESCO had allocated only one quota for every country to be registered in its World Heritage List. “As one of the most important achievements of humanity in the 20th century, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization has played a crucial role in different fields of culture, science, and education,” he lavished praise on the organization; “our experts estimate that Iran is home to about 1 million monument and sites; since 1930, when the first Iranian law on protection of historical monuments passed in the Parliament, about 32,000 sites, fields, and monuments had been added to National Site Heritage List, of which only 19 monuments have succeeded to find a place in World Heritage List, with only 3 registered in the current government,” he told detailed.
