"Stop playing with people's beliefs, coronavirus is nothing in the Shia shrines," one man is recorded saying at the Fatima Masumeh shrine in Qom, the epicente of the Iranian outbreak of the novel ...

While the city of Qom is the epicentre of #CoronaVirus in Iran, authorities refuse to close ... There is no need to lick or kiss a shrine, for your prayer to be heard! No city is divinely ...

In Qom, the procession moved toward the city's main shrine of Massoumeh as mourners ... The official IRNA news agency said the funerals in Iran were attended by "hundreds of thousands" of people.

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