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the provincial tourism chief has said.A budget of five billion rials ($10,000) has been allocated to the restoration project, Ata Hassanpur
said on Wednesday.The project involves repairing walls and rooftop as well as doors and windows, the official added.Last year, the official
announced that the school is planned to be repurposed into a creative center for handicrafts.As a handicrafts center, the school will be
able to promote handmade works of local artisans and introduce itself as a tourist destination, he noted.A region of raw beauty in western
Iran, Lorestan was once inhabited by Iranian Indo-European peoples, including the Medes, c
Moreover, Cimmerians and Scythians intermittently ruled the region from about 700 to 625 BC.Lorestan is famed for its ancient Luristan
Bronzes for its eclectic array of Assyrian, Babylonian, and Iranian artistic motifs, dating from this turbulent period.Historically
speaking, Lorestan was incorporated into the growing Achaemenid Empire in about 540 BC and successively was part of the Seleucid, Parthian,
