In a tweet on Thursday, former IRGC commander Mohsen Rezaei noted the discrepancy between the “presence of ISIL in Iraq” and the “growing grandeur of Arbaeen procession” in the last three years in the war-torn country, saying “ Iraq has been faced with two completely contradictory events in the past three years; one of them is the presence of ISIL terrorists that has spread as far as 40km from capital Baghdad, and the other is the Arbaeen mourning procession that has flourished unprecedentedly in Iraq and become all the more phenomenal as ISIL nears its end.”
He went on to add, “most surprising of all is that despite the root cause of these two events in which an army of 30,000 ISIL militants attacked a group of 100 devotees of Imam Hussein, and slaughtered men and took women and children captive, today centuries after the Battle of Karbala (680 AD), ISIL terrorists with all the crimes they have committed like their ancestors in Karbala, will be soon buried under ground in absolute contempt.”
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