Question: Underneath the sacred rock is a grotto where, according to tradition, great prophets and kings of the past came to pray and where the souls of the dead travel for their devotions.
Beside the sacred rock is a grotto where criminals come to rest when they are executed.

Answer: no

Question: Instead of sitting down to a formal meal in a restaurant you can wander into a tapas bar, point to the items you like and eat your way down the counter, rather like a smorgasbord.
A tapas bar is not like a smorgasbord.

Answer: no

Question: decided to carve up that part of the world and call part of it Persia and part of it uh Iraq and part of it something else you know and they they split things along um
They decided to divide that area of the middle east, one half was called Iraq and the other side was named Persia

Answer:
yes