🎥 “Hadiyeh Karimi Sadr,” an Arab Ahwazi journalist and civil activist, says in this interview with IranWire TV about the Gergian ceremony among Arab people in Khuzestan province; a ceremony in which children wear Arab clothing and take sweets and chocolates from people’s homes.

According to Ms. Karimi Sadr, although this festival is held on the fifteenth day of Ramadan, it has nothing to do with Islam, and its roots go back to the Arab people’s culture in Khuzestan province. She says that although the government has tried to link Gergian to the birth of “Hasan Mojtaba,” the second Shiite Imam, in history, no connection can be found between the two events.