AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): Iranian Armed Forces started staging a military parade here on Thursday in commemoration of the Sacred Defense Week.
Sacred Defense Week starts in Iran on September 22. The Week is annually celebrated nationwide to mark martyrs and war veterans of the Iraqi imposed war on Iran in 1980-88.
The military parade is being held near Imam Khomeini Mausoleum downtown Tehran.
The march is also organized coincidently across the country.
Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Baqeri is to deliver speech today.
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