Dispatch of sweepers from Mashhad to Karbala by the Iranian government

An Iranian citizen from the town of Kerman, Ma'ab, was appointed to the post in 2019 by Qassem Soleimani, the IRGC's Qods Force Chief Commander who was killed by a U.S. drone attack in early January, outside Baghdad international airport. Iran's efforts to rebuild Twelver-Shiite religious sites in Iraq began in 2003.