Shiite Muslims prepare for Ashura in Tehran
A vendor sells imaginary pictures of Imam Hussein for Ashura in downtown Tehran, Iran on January 10, 2007. Ashura is the peak of ten days of mourning during the Islamic month of Muharram, the first month of the lunar calendar, when Shiite Muslims mourn the slaughter of Imam Hussein 1366 years ago in what is now Karbala in southern Iraq. (UPI Photo/Mohammad Kheirkhah)
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Iranian Muslims commemerated the Ashura event, the death of Imam Hussein in the 7th century, in Tehran, Iran. The Shiite holiday mourns the death of the Prophet Mohammad's grandson in the battle of Karbala in 680 A.D.
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NAJAF, Iraq, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- The Shiite holy city of Najaf made preparations Tuesday for commemorations of the Day of Ashura, marking the death of the grandson of the prophet Mohammed.
