Tehran (ISNA) – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei attended the mourning ceremony of Sham-e Ghariban on Tuesday night September 10 at the Husseiniyeh of Imam Khomeini in Tehran.

The mourning ceremony of Sham-e Ghariban is held in the evening of Ashura for the captives of Karbala including Zainab bint Ali, who was the sister of Imam Hussain (PBUH) and Imam Zayn al-Abidin (PBUH), who was the fourth Shiite Imam.