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Feb
2007
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Visiting Islamic Republic's Grave?
In Iran, when a person dies, the body is buried in the ground and a gravestone, almost the size of the body, is used to spot the location. The name of the deceased and his date of birth/death will be engraved on the gravestone. Recently, Iranians have also accustomed the habit of adding the deceased’s picture to the gravestone. Having said all this, it seems that the Islamic Republic leaders have prepared themselves for burying the regime, or even have already buried it.
During today’s ceremony in which Ahmadinejad and the leader paid respect to Khomeini, they also had a walk, independently, in Tehran’s huge graveyard to visit martyrs’ graves. Is this the the Islamic Republic’s gravestone?
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What’s the significance of martyrs’ graves? Me no get.
Jina,
Take this, in Iran, a very common sentence to encourage/force women to tighten their veils is to “respect the martyrs’ blood”.
Arash thanks for the update of Iranian Culture 101.
martyrs are more and more common, probably anyone can become a martyr if they want to.
Just like the word “hero” in American culture. It used to have a very very special meaning. But now sports stars are called “heroes”. The war on terror calls for alot of heroes. Every American soldier is called a “hero”. Maybe some says the same of the Prez. “He’s my hero.”
Edo River,
Good comparison.