{"id":160176,"date":"2025-11-13T17:30:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T14:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/?p=160176"},"modified":"2025-11-13T17:30:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T14:00:26","slug":"marvdasht-expansion-towards-perspolis-removed-from-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/?p=160176","title":{"rendered":"Marvdasht expansion towards Perspolis Removed from Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Strategic Council of Persepolis has decisively removed the proposal to expand Marvdasht city toward the historic site of Persepolis from its agenda.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During its recent session, the council unanimously rejected the plan to extend Marvdasht and annex parts of Persepolis\u2019 protected buffer zones into the urban area. This decision followed a field inspection by Farhad Azizi, Director-General of National and World Heritage Sites, who reviewed the areas highlighted in maps released by both Marvdasht\u2019s parliamentary representative and the Persepolis World Heritage Site office. Consequently, any plans to expand the city toward Persepolis have been officially canceled.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting, which addressed the proposal to include the second-degree buffer zone of Persepolis within Marvdasht\u2019s city limits, was attended by the Director-General of Fars Province Cultural Heritage, the Deputy Governor of Fars, the Director-General of National and World Heritage Sites, the head of the Persepolis World Heritage Site, and archaeologists serving on the Strategic Council of Persepolis. Along with halting Marvdasht\u2019s expansion, the plan to annex the second-degree buffer zone was also removed from consideration.<\/p>\n<p>It is worth noting that Marvdasht\u2019s parliamentary representative had previously announced intentions to add roughly 961 hectares to the city. Had this plan been executed, it could have threatened Persepolis\u2019 designation as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Strategic Council of Persepolis has decisively removed the proposal to expand Marvdasht city toward the historic site of Persepolis from its agenda. During its recent session, the council unanimously rejected the plan to extend Marvdasht and annex parts of Persepolis\u2019 protected buffer zones into the urban area. This decision followed a field inspection by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":160177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[158,1331],"class_list":["post-160176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-zoroastrians","tag-marvdasht","tag-perspolis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/160177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}