Khomeini and Khamenei photos return to Baghdad
Shafaq News / Iraqi factions are preparing to revive the "International Quds Day" which is celebrated in Iran and in some countries at the last Friday of Ramadan every year, the day that the late Iranian leader Khomeini called for.
The spread of large pictures starting today were hang on bridges of Felestine Street in Baghdad as was noticed in the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
These photos collected four personalities for Khomeini, Supreme Leader of Iran Ali Khamenei, as well as the former commander of "Quds Force" Qassem Soleimani and former deputy head of the Popular Mobilization Committee, Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis.
Soleimani and Al-Muhandis were killed in a US air strike near Baghdad International Airport last January.
Under the hanging pictures, there was a phrase read "We will pray in the Al Aqsa Compound (known to Muslims as the Haram esh-Sharif ) soon."
Shia factions loyal to Iran have long hung pictures of Khomeini and Khamenei in the capital, Baghdad, and the central and southern provinces of the Shiite majority.
However, the big photos were hang this time to have a new look that includes Soleimani and Al-Muhandis as well.
Pictures of Iran's symbols hanging in the country have been a target of the Iraqi popular movement for months, as demonstrators set fire protesting the loyalty of many factions and politicians of the country to Iran rather than their country, as well as resenting Tehran's growing influence in the country and its sponsorship of parties close to it accused of corruption and mismanagement.
Quds Day or (Jerusalem Day), is an annual event that opposes Israel's occupation of Jerusalem; The anti-Israel demonstrations are being mobilized and held today in some Arab and Islamic countries, and in Islamic and Arab societies in the countries of the world, especially in Iran, as it was the first to propose the occasion. It is held every year on the last Friday of Ramadan, as it is not an Islamic religious holiday; It is, however, an event of a political nature.
