Despite the threat of mines, assassination,
and death by dehydration and starvation, determined Shiite
Muslims - as many as 3,000 a day - have been pouring across
the Iran-Iraq border since the fall of the Iraqi government.
They risk their lives for only one reason: to visit the holy
city of Karbala, fifty miles south of Baghdad. This city
houses the magnificent shrine of seventh-century leader Imam
Hussein, grandson of the prophet Muhamed. Hussein died in a
battle in 681, a martyr to the Shiite faith. The intense
devotion of these pilgrims to Imam Hussein and Karbala
astounds outside observers at the same time that it puts the
Iranian government in a major predicament. Torn between
bureaucracy and allegiance to Islam, Tehran is continually
revising its emigration policies, periodically opening and
then closing its border. Meanwhile people are dying, and
chaos reigns at crossing points.
زیارت - فیلم مستند
در باره زائران ایرانی در عراق
Format:
DVD
Runtime:
85
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Drama Language:
In Farsi
with English subtitles
Picture quality:
Great
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