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Influx of Iranians bolsters Iraq’s Arbaeen pilgrimage
ID: 1663407078374973100Sat, 2022-09-17 09:24 KARBALA: Twenty million pilgrims, swelled by a record influx of Iranians, have converged on the Iraqi shrine city of Karbala to mark Arbaeen, an annual Shiite festival that climaxes on Saturday. It is one of the world’s biggest religious gatherings, observed in Iraq and neighboring Iran, both Shiite majority countries. The event marks the end of a 40-day mourning period for the killing of Imam Hussein — a founding figure in Shiite Islam and grandson of the Prophet Muhammad — by the forces of the caliph Yazid in 680 AD.Main category: Middle-East

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