The mourning sticks came down on their own heads this time.
A bloody brawl between two mourning processions inside Imam Reza's shrine in Mashhad left more than fifty injured. State media like Fars tried to contain the scandal, claiming the fight didn't happen "inside the shrine complex" — but the visible luggage-deposit sign in the footage says otherwise.
And Fars's denial changes nothing about the substance: the culture of mourning itself has changed.
"The Islamic Republic is harvesting the fruit of what it planted for decades."
This time in the very domain it claims as its own — the ritual space it used for decades as a source of legitimacy. Even the most devout no longer preserve the sanctity of what they themselves call holy.
Then look at the split screen of a nation: on one side, sticks and blood in the holiest Shia site in the northeast.
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