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25 December 2024

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Quranic events in Iraq mark Gen. Soleimani, Al-Muhandis martyrdom anniversary

Quran recitation sessions are being held in Iraq on the martyrdom anniversary of Lt. General Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis.

AhlulBayt News Agency: Quran recitation sessions are being held in Iraq on the martyrdom anniversary of Lt. General Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis.

The programs, titled “Ashrat al-Fajr al-Quraniya (Ten Quranic Dawns), are held for ten days.

They are attended by Iraqi and Iranian Qaris and Quran memorizers, Masoud Deris, said director of the Basair al-Quraniya Institute.

He said there will be a total of 160 Quranic sessions in 13 governorates of the Arab country.

Most of them will be hosted in mosques and religious centers, according to Deris.

In each session, two qaris from Iraq and one qari from Iran recite verses from the Holy Book, he noted.

The Basair al-Quraniya Institute organizes the events in cooperation with grassroots Quranic institute Itthad al-Quraniyeen, he stated.

Meysam Hamidinik, Seyed Mohammad Kermani, Mohsen Qassemi, Shoja Zuwaidat, Mohammad Javad Kashefi, Hossein Pourkavir, Yunes Shahmoradi, Vahid Barati, Mojtaba Parvizi, and Ali Khoshnoud are among the Iranian reciters taking part in the programs.

General Soleimani, the commander of the Islamic Revolution Gurads Corps Quds Force, and al-Muhandis, the deputy head of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), along with a number of their companions, were assassinated in a US drone attack on Baghdad International Airport in January 3, 2020.


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