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American Thinker: The Memory of Liberty Haunts Iran

Iran's Mullahs are trying to stamp out the memory of a great hero of human rights, a Persian who preceded Islam and therefore threatens it. Free people all over the world celebrate the memory of Cyrus the Great, the author of one of mankind's greatest documents, the first Charter of Human Rights, on October 29th. This benevolent king, ruling over a vast empire of diverse people nearly three millennia ago, enshrined the principles that define and protect human dignity in the Cyrus Cylinder.

Cyrus' Charter of Human Rights is the first written document which stipulates that all humans have universal inalienable rights, without regard to any and all demographic considerations such as ethnicity, nationality and religion.

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