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Iranian Alpinists Climbed
the
Peak
of Mt Ararat
on 24th April
April 24, 2005
- On the occasion of the 90th anniversary of
the Armenian Genocide, a team of
Alpine Club of Iran
climbed the peak of Mt Ararat
on 24th April 2005.
It would have
programmed that all the ten alpinists
climbed the Mt Ararat, but three of them
were not allowed to climb the Ararat by
Turkish government. The cause that regional
Turkish police did not allow them climbed
the Ararat was that the surname of the three
alpinists ended to "ian",
meanwhile only one of them was Armenian.
Then the team
divided to two groups. First group including
Mohammad Tanha, Javad Hazratipour, Vali
Mohammad Kalkali, Abbas Mohammadi, Reza
Nezamdoust and Mohammad Nouri climbed the Mt
Ararat. The second
group who confronted with the problem,
including Seyed Hamid Sedighian, Kazem
Faridian, Souren Stepanian and Moharam
Mahmoudi climbed the Mt Sipan, the second
highest peak in Armenian highland located in
the north of lake Van. Both groups
placed a silver plate on the peaks. On the
plate was engraved following text. " I call the
living, I mourn the dead, I overpower the
thunder ". Then the team went to
Armenia and
presented the
stone pieces brought from the Mt Ararat
to the Museum of the Armenian
Genocide in Armenia.
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Iranian President Khatami in
Memorial of the
Armenian Genocide
September 9,
2004 - The president of Islamic Republic of
Iran Seyed Mohammad Khatami visited the
Armenian Genocide
Memorial Complex (Tsitsernakaberd)
in Yerevan and laid a wreath on the Memorial
for 1,500,000
victims of the
Armenian genocide
in Ottoman Turkey in 1915.
Khatami in
memorial of the Armenian Genocide
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