Iran-backed faction prohibits Taraweeh prayers in Syria’s Deir ez-Zor
DEIR EZ-ZOR, Syria (North Press) – An Iran-backed faction closed down several mosques, on Sunday evening, banning Muslims from performing Taraweeh prayers (night prayers during Ramadan) in Abu Kamal city situated on the Syria-Iraq border.
Ahmed al-Khattab, a resident of Abu Kamal, 110km east of Deir ez-Zor, said the faction shuttered dozens of mosques in the city where Muslims used to perform Taraweeh prayers in the holy month of Ramadan.
Al-Imam al-Bukhari, Qiba, Omar, al-Qaryatayn, and Othman Bin Afan mosques were also closed by the faction.
The Iran-backed faction placed banners on the mosques that read “the Taraweeh prayers must be performed in the Grand mosque in Abu Kamal that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and a Shiite Imam supervise.”
Iran-backed factions control vast areas of the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor after the defeat of the Islamic State Organization (ISIS) in late 2017.
On March 20, the Iranian Cultural Center started the registration of children in order to have new courses in the Shiite doctrine in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, according to residents.