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RNPS Images of the Year 2008: 19
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Updated: 2008-12-05 17:26
 
A performer rests during a religious carnival marking Ashura on day eight of Muslim holy month of Moharram in Sede, near of the city of Isfahan, 495 km (309 miles) south of Tehran, January 17, 2008. Ashura, a 10-day-long event commemorates the death of the Prophet Mohammed's grandson Iman Hussein in battle 1,300 years ago. [Agencies]