Across India, Eid-ul-Fitr was marked with prayers, gatherings and festive meals on Saturday. But in Kintur village in the Badosarai area of Uttar Pradesh, the day passed without the usual celebrations.
The Shia community in Kintur chose restraint, mourning the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in airstrikes by the United States and Israel on March 1.
Residents gathered not just for prayers but also to express their anger over what they called “unjust” military action against Iran.
A protest demonstration was carried out peacefully, with slogans raised against Israel.
The village shares ancestral roots with Ayatollah Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini, the leader of Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution and the founding figure of the Islamic Republic.
