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Pilgrim at the Holy Shrine of Emām Rezā,  Mashhad                            2002

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His resolute piety was as steady as the rhythm of the drumbeat to which he and his companions timed the incessant lashing of their backs with the bundle of chains. They were making their pilgrimage to the Holy Shrine of Emám Rezá, Iran’s most holy of Shiite religious sites.

 

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