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The loudest Iranian scream recorded in the world
2018-02-11

It is February 22, 1396.
All roads leading to this masterpiece of Iranian Renaissance architecture, the Qaboos Dome, are closed due to a procession. We walk with the procession until we reach the foot of the Qaboos Dome.
The old photographer stands in front of the entrance with a signboard for his services and a few pieces of local Turkmen clothing.
We climb the width of the hill that is the trustee of the Iranian world heritage.

The old photographer stands at the bottom of the hill in front of the entrance, waiting.

Professor Arthur Pope wrote about this building:
Beneath the eastern side of the Alborz Mountains and against the vast deserts of Asia, one of the greatest masterpieces of Iranian architecture rises in all its glory and grandeur. This building is the Kavus Dome, the tomb of Kavus Pour-Vashmgir, and the tomb tower is free from any kind of decoration. A fighter with the power of faith in a head-on battle, a poet's kingdom in a battle with eternity, is there such a great and powerful tomb?
The old photographer stands at the bottom of the hill in front of the entrance, waiting.

Will Durant wrote:
In the 10th century (the Al-Ziyar period), Gorgan was one of the great provinces of Iran and was famous for its intellectual emirs, such as Kavus Vashmgir, who called Pour-Sina to his court. This city has a 52-meter dome.

The old photographer stands at the bottom of the hill in front of the entrance, waiting.

We leave the embodied history and the three-dimensional Turkmen leader there at the foot of the tallest brick tower in the world in the year 375 solar year and descend the proud hill of the ages to 1396.

The old photographer is waiting for us! No!
He is waiting for bread.

For just two thousand tomans, he dresses us in rich clothes and takes our picture, immortalizing us next to the monument of Amir Shams Maali, Amir son of Amir, Kavus son of Voshmgir. At the very moment when the cry of "Death to so-and-so" rises from the ground to the air, the old man photographer records us next to the loudest Iranian cry ever recorded in the world.

Majid Parasttash | via artfo.ir