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The Message for Tyrants of the Massive Arba’een Rallies
By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer
While Karbala hosted some 25 million pilgrims this year for the Arba’een of Imam Husain (AS), with the largest multimillion march covering the 87-km highway from Holy Najaf, the Iranian capital registered the second largest pilgrim rally on the 40th day of the martyrdom of Prophet Muhammad’s (SAWA) grandson.
Yesterday Tehran witnessed millions of black-clad mourners for the annual walk on Safar 20 from the Imam Husain (AS) Square in the city centre to the shrine of Seyyed Abdul-Azeem some 20 km south.
These massive gatherings echoed with elegies for the immortal martyrs of Karbala, along with vows of vengeance for the innocent blood of Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei (RA) and other martyrs of the US-Israeli imposed war, including the 168 schoolchildren of Minab.
Another common feature of the Arba’een assemblies held in all other towns and cities of the Islamic Republic were, in addition to the huge portraits of Martyr Ayatollah Khamenei (RA), large posters of the other martyrs, especially of Iran’s Qasim Soleimani and Iraq’s Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.
These two generals of the anti-terrorism campaign were the victims of the dastardly dotard Donald Trump, whom both the Iranian and Iraqi people have pledged to punish.
People in the two said countries are confident of bringing to justice the criminal US president. They note that the sacred blood of Imam Husain (AS) was avenged within a few years by Mukhtar ibn Abu Obeidah Thaqafi who traced, tracked down, tried and threw into the bowels of Hell most of the cowardly killers of the Prophet’s Blessed Household.
No wonder, the flags of the US and the illegal Zionist entity were trampled upon and burned in the Arba’een rallies in Iran, while the more or less the same spirit of solidarity against the US and Israel was witnessed in Iraq’s massive rally to indicate the miserable fate awaiting Trump and Netanyahu.
The verdict is clear. Both the US and the Zionist entity are the incarnations of the accursed Yazid and his bloodthirsty hordes, thus deserving capital punishment.
If the Iranian and Iraqi people are devoted to the humanitarian mission of Imam Husain (AS), they should continue the coordination to promote his message of peace, justice, human dignity and the iron-resolve against tyranny.
This requires fulfillment of the religious duty to bring to justice the two notorious enemies of humanity, whose days are indeed numbered.