Mick Hartley

An Iranian woman at a mud-rubbing ceremony:

[Photo: Atta Kenare / AFP / Getty]

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An Iranian Shi'ite Muslim woman looks on after rubbing mud on her body during the "Kharrah Mali" (Mud Rubbing) ritual to mark the Ashura religious ceremony in the city of Khorramabad, some 470 km southwest of Tehran, early in the morning on October 1, 2017. Mud rubbing is a ritual that is held in Khorramabad every year to commemorate the seventh century slaying of the Prophet Mohammed's grandson Imam Hussein.