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Did Basim Khashan Talk About Getting Into A Situation While Driving His Car On One of His Visits To Tehran?
A news post circulated on social media platforms with the following text: "MP Basim Khashan says: On one of my visits to Tehran, while I was driving my car, and in one of the streets, I encountered a roadblock that the police had set up to prevent the vehicles from passing, but I hit the fence with my car and destroyed it and entered the street! When the police came to arrest me, I gave them my passport and as soon as they learned that I was Iraqi, they kissed me and apologized to me, and the officer started crying until his beard got wet! unlike the school fence incident."
The Truth:
The news circulated is incorrect, and we did not find any source to prove its validity. Also, after reviewing the accounts of the Representative (Basim Khashan) on social media, no results appeared regarding him telling a story where he drove his car in Tehran and smashed a fence there or even the police's stand on the alleged incident.
In turn, Khashan denied the story attributed to him, by posting a screenshot that included the fake post with a description: "Look at the comments on this false news, you know how public opinion is formed... People believe everything, the truth is lost!", In his official account on Facebook, on Saturday 10 September 2022.
The circulation of this false statement comes after the local government of Karbala governorate revealed that it had issued a strong warning to one of the Iranian Husseini processions, after destroying the sidewalk and the fence of a girls' school in the city.
The Mayor of Karbala, Hussein Al-Mankoshi, told Rudaw Media Network, on Friday (September 9th, 2022), that "one of the Iranian Hussaini processions, takes advantage of the Karbala High School for Girls in the Al-Hussein neighborhood, and designates it for them during religious occasions, brought a truck from the procession into the school."
"This act tampered with the school's sidewalk, and then the school's wall was destroyed, although the administrative authorities are not aware of the matter," Al-Mankoshi explained.
The mayor of Karbala, pointed out, "The procession was officially informed that the sidewalk and the school fence should be restored in a proper manner, otherwise they will be included in the blacklist and will be prevented from religious visits in the future."
Al-Mankushi stressed that "the visitor should imitate the morals of Hussein and his family and not violate the government's funds and citizens," warning that "any other behavior like this will cause them to be denied from participating in upcoming religious events."
For his part, the member of the Iraqi parliament in the Emtidad Movement, Dhiaa Hindi, demanded, in a video clip, for the Iranian consul to apologize for what the Iranian Husseini procession did in this school.
Al-Hindi said, addressing his words to the Iranian Husseini procession founders: "As an Iraqi and a Karbalaei when I go to visit Iran, I do not have the right to destroy a wall or lift muqarnas from the ground".
