BEIRUT (Reuters) - A fire at a tar factory in the town of Bandar Abbas in southern Iran killed three people and injured two others, the Iranian Students’ News Agency (ISNA) reported Wednesday.

Earlier in 2012, Iran has officially objected to UNESCO’s decision to inscribe the art of crafting and playing tar, a long-necked stringed instrument, on UNESCO’s list for the Republic of Azerbaijan.

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He rejected the Azerbaijani officials claims to register Tar musical instrument as a Turkish instrument as fake, adding that “the instrument has migrated from Iran to Azerbaijan. They have removed the ...

Cavanşir Axundov told Mehr News during his visit to Mehr News Agency and Tehran Times News Paper that Iran could register in UNESCO many items as intangible heritage. “The ‘Tar’ instrument registered ...

The United Nations’ heritage body accepted the art of miniature as a common tradition ... and the skills of making and playing the oud (a stringed instrument) were not qualified to be added to the ...