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The traditional ritual of Gargee’an in the month of Ramadan

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Gargee’an, or qarqee’an, is the name of a popular ritual among Arabs in Iran’s Khouzestan and Hormozgan, and in Iraq, Bahrain, Kuwait, eastern Saudi Arabia (Ahsa and Qatif), and the United Arab Emirates.
Foreign Policy

Iran: Swedish government accountable for sacrilege against Quran

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Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman has strongly condemned the sacrilege of the Holy Quran by a Danish politician in one of Sweden’s cities, saying the Swedish government must be held accountable for the insulting act.
Religion

Intl. holy Quran exhibition begins in Tehran

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The 29th edition of the International Holy Quran Exhibition began in Tehran on Saturday with the presence of Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf and Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Mohammad-Mehdi Esmaili.
Religion

‘Stabbing attack in Mashhad enemy plot to divide Iran, Afghanistan’

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A high-ranking Iranian cleric says the recent stabbing attack in the city of Mashhad, which killed two clerics and wounded another, was an act of sedition by Iran’s enemies and meant to drive Iran and Afghanistan apart.
Religion

Police dismiss reports on demolition of mosque in Zahedan

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The police in southeastern Iranian city of Zahedan has dismissed reports on social media about the destruction of a mosque in the Sunni-majority city.
Religion

Exhibitions of handwritten copies of Quran in Shiraz tourist attractions

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During this year’s holy month of Ramadan, an exhibition has kicked off in the city of Shiraz that has put on display 40 handwritten copies of the Quran and prayers dating back to the 5th to 14th centuries in the Jahan Nama Garden Museum and Delgosha Garden Museum.
Religion

Gathering for Qur’an recital at Isfahand’s Chahar Bagh

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In the course of the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, groups of people in the central city of Isfahan get together for reciting Quran at the historical Chahar Bagh Boulevard.
Religion

Iran’s leader donates 1 billion tomans to needy prisoners

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Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Khamenei has donated one billion tomans (40,000 dollars) to win the freedom of needy prisoners.
Religion

Saudi Arabia increases Hajj quota to 1mn pilgrims in 2022

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Saudi Arabia has announced it will allow one million people – from both inside and outside the kingdom – to perform the Hajj this year compared with only a few thousand local pilgrims over the past two years.
Custom

People in Semnan make traditional cookies for the needy

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A group of people in the Iranian city of Semnan have been making traditional cookies for the needy during the holy month of Ramadan.
Religion

Takfiris bearing grudge against Infallible Imams: Iran intel minister

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Iran’s intelligence minister says the recent terrorist attack at the Imam Reza holy shrine in the northeast of the country is a proof of Takfiris’ malice toward divine Imams.
Religion

People hold funeral for 2nd cleric killed in Mashhad stabbing

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People in the Iranian city of Mashhad have held a funeral for the second cleric who died of his injuries sustained during Tuesday’s stabbing attack inside the Imam Reza shrine.
Incidents

Second cleric dies of injuries sustained during Mashhad stabbing

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A second cleric injured during a stabbing spree in the holy shrine of Imam Reza (PBUH) in Mashhad, northeastern Iran, has died. The stabbing attack happened on Tuesday and instantly killed a cleric identified as Hojatoleslam Aslani and injured two others.
Religion

Memorial service held for cleric stabbed to death in Iran

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A funeral procession has been held for a clergyman stabbed to death in a knife attack at the Imam Reza Shrine in the city of Mashhad in Iran’s northeastern Khorasan Razavi Province.
Religion

How people in Iran’s Hormozgan observe Ramadan

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The people in Iran’s southern Hormozgan Province, like their other compatriots, have clung firmly to their religious rituals during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, during which they abstain from all food or drink from dawn to sunset, among other things.
Religion

Iran’s Sunni clerics condemn fatal knife attack at holy Shia shrine

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Iran’s Sunni Muslim clerics have sharply condemned a deadly knife attack at the holy shrine of Imam Reza in Mashhad, urging authorities to bring all those responsible to justice.
Religion

Iftar tablecloths return to Grand Mosque in Mecca after two years of pandemic

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With the start of the holy month of Ramadan, Iftar tablecloths return to the Grand Mosque in Mecca and the Mosque of the Prophet in Medina in Saudi Arabia.
Religion

Raisi felicitates Muslim leaders on Ramadan

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Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi has congratulated the leaders of the Islamic countries on the arrival of the holy month of Ramadan.
Religion

Iran’s Leader condoles with top general on loss of child

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Iran’s Islamic Revolution Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has commiserated with Brigadier General Ahmadreza Pourdastan, a high-ranking Iranian army commander, on the demise of his child.
Religion

Iran’s Leader performs prayers at Ayat. Reyshahri’s funeral

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Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has led prayers over the body of senior Iranian cleric Ayatollah Mohammad Mohammadi Reyshahri, who passed away earlier this week.
Religion

Former Iran Intel. Minister Mohammadi Rayshahri laid to rest

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The body of the former Iranian intelligence minister and member of Assembly of Experts, Ayatollah Mohammad Mohammadi Rayshahri, was laid to rest at Shah Abdolazim Shrine in southern Tehran, after a funeral procession on Thursday.
Religion

The Leader offers condolences on ayatollah Rayshahri’s passing away

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Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei has offered condolences on the passing away of top Shia cleric, Ayatollah Mohammad Mohammadi Rayshahri.
Religion

Former Iranian intelligence minister dies at 76

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Ayatollah Mohammad Mohammadi Rayshahri, former Iranian intelligence minister and a member of the Assembly of Experts, has passed away at the age of 76, after a period of hospitalization for illness.
Religion

Ayatollah Khamenei offers condolences over death of Iranian cleric

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Iran’s leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has offered condolences over the passing of Iranian cleric Hojatoleslam Mohsen Shafiei.
Religion

Local Iranians hold funeral for late Ayatollah Alavi Gorgani

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People in the northern Iranian city of Gorgan have held a funeral for Ayatollah Seyyed Mohammad Hossein Alavi Gorgani, an Iranian Shia cleric, who passed away on Tuesday at the age of 82.
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