Iran challenges a Christie’s sale of an Achaemenid relief
Iran obtained an injunction in 2005 to stop Christie’s from selling a limestone relief it said had been unlawfully removed from the country. The High Court dismissed Iran’s restitution claim in February 2007. The relief was auctioned in London that October.
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