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Ashura is famous for the people practising self-flagellation but Ashura is more than that. For the Shia people, the Day of Ashura is the tenth day of Muharram and commemorates the killing of Hussein and his 72 relatives by the Umayyad caliphate in Karbala, Iraq. In Iran, this is the time for unique celebrations all over the country.
The temperature exceeds 50 degrees. The humidity level reaches 100% but everybody is carried away by the trance. Bodies jump to the hypnotic rhythm of the “Hussein, Hussein” chants on a techno-like beat.