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May 17, 2020, 6 tweets

There is No difference between #Basij terrorists & #ISIL! #IRGC's Basiji militiamen attacked Jewish Tomb of Esther and Mordechai in #Hamedan yesterday & the Christian graveyard of #Eslamshahr today. There is No difference among #Iran's Islamic Regime (#Jaesh) & #Daesh!

This is not for first time that terrorists of the Islamic Regime are destroying graveyards where none-Muslims or enemies of extremist Islam are buried in #Iran. It started with destruction of tomb of #RezaShah the Great, founder of modern #Iran by Ayatollah Khalkhali in 1979:

#Basij militiamen who are equivalent of Sunni #ISIL are frequently attacking & destroying graves of Jews, Christians & none Muslims in #Iran. One of recent examples took place in #Isfahan. Basijis stormed #Armenian graveyard of the city & destroyed all gravestones on 19/12/2019.

Same happened to the Armenian graveyard of #Kermanshah in 2017. #IRGC's #Basij militiamen radicalized by a local Friday Pray Imam stormed the graveyard & destroyed the graves.

In 2016, #Basij terrorists of #IRGC stormed the Polish, Assyrian & Armenian graveyards of #Ahvaz in southwest of #Iran. It took a year for the local authorities to restore and reconstruct all the gravestones destroyed by the Basijis.

Attacking graveyards & holly sites of Christians, Zoroastrians, Jews, Bahais & etc is just a small part of the acts of terror committed by #IRGC's #Basij militiamen. We better remember their acid attacks against women in #Isfahan in October 2014:

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