Iran Press/ Iran News: The Hosseini infants' ceremony is held every year on the first Friday of the month of Muharram.
Earlier, the Secretary of World Imam Hussain Infants Assembly said in a presser on Tuesday that 8,000 congregations will be held in Iran and 45 countries, the participants of which are predicted to reach 8 million.
Davood Manafipour told IranPress that this year, over 100 clothing sewing and packaging workshops will be active in the country, the center of which is Tehran, where 120,000 clothes have been sewn and sent abroad.
The event is a symbolic move wherein mothers clad their infants in green to commemorate the youngest martyr of the Karbala, Ali Asghar, announcing their allegiance to follow Imam Hussein's (AS) path.
The International Day of Ali Asghar narrates and screens the incident of Ashura and Al Umayyad's oppression, pressures, and bullying against Imam Hussain and his companions more than 1,300 years ago.
Ali Asghar is the minor son of Imam Hussein (AS) and his wife, Lady Rubab (SA). Mothers gather at the event and bring their infants to show sympathy for Lady Rubab (SA).
The event is annually held in a number of countries, including Iran, India, Pakistan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Türkiye, and Afghanistan.
The conference has been held since 1982, and in the first year, only one event was held in Mahdieh, Tehran.
This year in Tehran city, in addition to the smaller gatherings of delegations and hosseiniyehs, 3 large gatherings are being held in the mosque of Imam Khomeini (RA), Mehdiyeh of Tehran, and the holy Shrine of Hazrat Abdul Azim Hasani (AS).
There have been some footage broadcast by Iran press picturing the ceremony being held in the Holy cities of Qom, Mashhad, as well as Pakistan's capital of Islamabad.
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