Promoted as a ‘don’t miss’ destination by almost all travel agencies in the region, the city of Yazd has twice been in the news in 2017. In July it was declared as a world heritage site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Later in the year, an article in the Tehran Times of December 27 stated that the disused dakhmas serve as tourist attractions in the city of Yazd. "Towers of Silence in central Iran are not any more dedicated to bones of the dead to get cleaned by vultures. In modern era, they are just......