"1.6 billion Muslims are standing behind the Iraqi nation and army, and as everyone noticed during the Arba’in mourning rituals, not only the regional Muslims, but also Armenian Christians wearing crosses participated in that morning ritual," added Ayatollah Mohammad Emami Kashani.

He added that the twenty some million Muslims that took part in those rituals despite the terrorists’ repeated threats represented a small sample of the hearts of the world Muslims that beat for Islam.

He also ridiculed the claims made by the leaders of the western-backed ISIS terrorists on destroying the Iraqi holy sites in Karbala, Najaf and Samarra, obeying their Zionist masters’ commands.