TEHRAN – Entry to Tehran’s Sacred Defense Museum is free from Feb. 1 to 11, which marks the 45th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, known as the Ten-Day Dawn celebrations.

The epic-scale Sacred Defense Museum does bargain something different in modern Iranian history where you can delve into wreckages of rockets, tanks, rifles, vessels, mortars, radars, air defense systems, grounded jets, military supplies, and artillery pieces amongst others.

The museum is equipped with a state-of-the-art visual system, including projections and video walls, while audio recordings relevant to each period contribute to its charm. The recreation of the liberation of the city of Khorramshahr using virtual exhibits and video projections is among the main features of the museum, where a replica of the Khorramshahr mosque is adorned with creamy and turquoise patterned tiles.

The 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq, locally marked as Sacred Defense, was launched by the order of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein nearly 19 months after the victory of the Islamic Revolution. It was the second-longest war of the 20th century after the Vietnam War.

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