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Iran’s $3 billion secret art bunker

Iran’s $3 billion secret art bunker

The Front · The Australian

March 27, 202611m 30s

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Show Notes

It’s like something out of Indiana Jones - art curators scrambling to save priceless artworks as bombs rain down. When it comes to casualties of war, the most confronting are human, but what about the cultural soul of a nation, with collections valued into the billions also being in the firing line? 

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