TEHRAN, Apr. 29 (MNA) ��Secretary-General of the Iranian National Commission for UNESCO has announced Tang-e Sayad biosphere reserve will be inscribed on the World Heritage List in two months.�




Mohammadreza Saeidabadi, Secretary-General�of the�Iranian National Commission for UNESCO, noted that Tang-e Sayad biosphere reserve will be reviewed in the next two months to be inscribed on the world heritage list as the country�s 11th globally registered reserve site.


According to him, Iran has so far registered 10 reserves as UNESCO World Heritage Sites, �including Lut Desert (in southeastern�Kerman), Harra Protected Area (near the island of�Qeshm), and Dena Biosphere Reserve (located in the Central Zagros mountains), nine of which had been inscribed before the Islamic Revolution.


�The initial stages for reviewing the case of Tang-e Sayad biosphere reserve have passed and the case will be submitted to UNESCO�s�Man and the Biosphere�Programme (MAB) for final revision,� he said.


UNESCO�s Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB), launched in 1971,�is an Intergovernmental Scientific Programme that aims to establish a scientific basis for the improvement of relationships between people and their environments.


The World Heritage Committee inscribed Iran�s Friday Mosque and Gonbad-e Qabus Tower during its 36th session held in St. Petersburg, Russia, from June 24 to July 6, 2012. Armenian monastic ensembles of Iran, Bam and its cultural landscape, Bisotoun, Naqsh-e Jahan Square, Pasargadae, Persepolis, Sheikh Safi al-din shrine, Shoushtar historical hydraulic system, Soltaniyeh, Tabriz historic bazaar complex, Takht-e Soleiman, Tchogha Zanbil and the Persian garden are other Iranian historical heritage inscribed on UNESCO�s World Heritage List.


By Mehr News Agency