🔸 Ali Akbar Pourjameshidian, deputy interior minister and head of the central Arbaeen headquarters, said on Sunday, the fifth of Mehr, that during this year’s Arbaeen ceremonies in Iraq, at least five Iranian military personnel had been killed in that country.

🔸 He said: “In the course of providing security for this year’s Arbaeen, five members of air defense were martyred and ten others were injured, some of whom were among Iranian compatriots.”

🔸 While two months have passed since the incident, the official has not mentioned the exact number of the injured or their identities.

🔸 In the days leading up to the Arbaeen ceremonies this year, coinciding with 13 Mordad, government-affiliated media inside Iran reported “missile attacks” by Saudi Arabia on “the moakibs and Arbaeen pilgrims of Imam Hossein (PBUH) in Karbala Province,” but none of them mentioned the killing of Iranian citizens in these attacks.