TEHRAN (Iran News) In a statement on Wednesday, the ministry expressed condolences on the martyrdom of Iranian national, Dr. Ali Heydari, in Lebanon during the Zionist regime’s barbaric attack.”document ”

Martyr Heydari was present in Beirut to provide medical assistance to people in need in Lebanon, the statement reads.

The Zionist regime’s targeting of Dr. Heydari, who worked as a doctor and paramedic to treat the wounded and help the sick, is a clear violation of the 1949 Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, and is considered a war crime, it added.

Since the beginning of the genocidal plot in Gaza and the subsequent invasion of Lebanon, the Zionist regime has repeatedly attacked medical centers and doctors and paramedics, and in addition to the complete destruction of many hospitals and the killing of the sick and wounded, hundreds of doctors have been martyred, it noted.

The Foreign Ministry also urged the competent organizations, including the International Committee of the Red Cross and the World Health Organization, to document repeated cases of gross violations of international humanitarian rights and attacks on hospitals and medical staff in Gaza and Lebanon.

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The document is a decree issued by Qajar king Mozaffar ad-Din Shah (1853-1907) on February 11, 1900, in which he assigned the renowned royal photographer Mirza Ahmad Khan Sani os-Saltaneh the task of buying a cinematograph.

The document, which belongs to Tehran’s Golestan Palace Museum, has been loaned to the Film Museum of Iran for a ten-day showing.

Iranian scholar and filmmaker Mohammadreza Aslani delivered a speech during the ceremony, which was attended by numerous cultural figures.

“This document tells us that Iran is one of earliest countries – perhaps the sixth – that experienced the advent of cinematograph,” Aslani said.

“This fact raises the question, due to this long history of cinema, why have we not held a position in the world history of cinema?” he stated.

“There is no allusion to Iran in the world history of cinema, meanwhile we can find many allusions to countries from Latin America, East Europe and Africa,” he added.

“Unfortunately, our background in cinema has not been changed into history… and our opponents didn’t allow our outstanding achievements in cinema to be transferred into the world’s history,” he lamented.

In his brief speech, Film Museum of Iran director Alireza Qasemkhan expressed his hope that the museum would organize other exhibitions in collaboration with the Golestan complex in order to raise the public’s awareness of national cinema history.

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