Incredible images from Iran: Mothers lift their children to offer them as witnesses

CNN reports recorded incredible images from a ceremony in Tehran every first Friday in the Islamic calendar, during which dozens of mothers lift their babies and offers them as witnesses for Iran, honoring Imam Hussein. CNN’s Frederick Platigen explains that this is a ceremony that began after the historic battle in Karbala, where Imam Hussein raised his child in his hands, asking the enemies who besieged the city to give him water. Instead, however, the besiegers killed Imam Hussein’s child. “There is nothing more heroic in Iran than to die as a witness,” Plagen notes, saying that this has become more important after the recent 12 -day war and the US bombing by the US. “We want to show them that we are not afraid of anything and we will continue to support our state until they are destroyed,” he hears one saying one […]
Source: News Beast

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