Iranian Media Reports Damage to Chehel Sotoun, a UNESCO-Listed Palace
Chehel Sotoun, part of a UNESCO World Heritage landmark in the Iranian city of Isfahan, was damaged following airstrikes in the area, according to Iranian state media. The report comes one week after Golestan Palace in Tehran suffered significant damage from aerial bombardment linked to US-Israeli strikes on Iran. A roughly minute-long video posted to X by Iranian state media appears to show doors blasted open. The grand windows of the 17th-century Chehel Sotoun Palace seem to have shattered. The report noted that the office of Isfahan provincial government, located approximately 100 meters from the palace, was targeted by a strike on March 9. The entire palace complex was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list as part of the Persian Garden in 2011. The serial listing encompasses nine historic gardens across Iran that collectively illustrate the evolution and diversity of the Persian garden tradition. Chehel Sotoun ...