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Iran strongly condemned the desecration of an ancient tomb on the outskirts of Damascus belonging to a Shia Muslim figure, warning the perpetrators against the consequences of the blasphemous act.

This comes as armed terrorists raided the mausoleum of Hujr Bin Oudi in the Damascus suburb of Adra, and taken his remains to an unknown location.

Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hussein Amir-Abdollahian said on Friday that those behind the sacrilegious act will receive a response that will make them regret exhuming the Muslim figure from the tomb.
He described the perpetrators as the elements of the "Israeli" regime who have carried out similar moves against holy Muslim sites in occupied Palestine before.

Meanwhile, clerics at the Islamic Seminary in the central Iranian holy city of Qom as well as in the Iraqi city of al-Najaf called off classes on Saturday to protest the profane move.

They are expected to stage a protest rally at the seminary to denounce the act of blasphemy.
Hujr - a close companion of the Holy Prophet Mohammad [PBUH] and a loyal to Imam Ali [PBUH] - led the army of Muslims to victory in several crucial battles.
Meanwhile, the Syrian Ministry of Endowments condemned the attack committed by the armed terrorist groups on the shrine.

In a statement, the Ministry said that destroying the shrine of a companion of the prophet and sacrilege his tomb is a flagrant attack on all Muslims' sanctity.
"Those Takfiri terrorist groups have got used to attack the places of worship of churches and mosques.. the attack on the Islamic and Christian sanctities is a systemized plot carried out by enemies of the humanity, on top, the attack on the Great Umayyad Mosque in Aleppo," the statement added.

It is worth mentioning that the terrorist groups destroyed and burnt several Mosques and Churches in different provinces, including some sites with historical and religious values.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by moqawama.org