Thursday, May 21, 2020

Suspicious fires at holy sites in Iran

COINCIDENCE? String of fires at Christian, Hindu, Jewish holy sites in Iran ‘deliberate’: Expert (Emily Judd and Yaghoub Fazeli, Al Arabiya).

The fires may well be coincidental, but the optics are not good. The Iranian authorities need to make this stop.

Background on the fire at the site of the (traditional) Tomb of Mordechai and Esther is here and here.

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