Iranian style mourning...
Shi'a Muslims mourn the death of Imam Hussein at the battle of Kerbala in 680AD...
In the capital Tehran large processions of men dressed in black beat themselves with bare hands or iron chains in rhythm in a show of sorrow, while women, who do not take part in self-flagellation in public, wept as they watched the procession.
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