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Women hold guns with flowers down the barrels and headbands that read "Fatima," the Prophet Mohammed's daughter, during a ceremony to mark the official start of annual celebrations marking "Sacred Defense Week" at the mausoleum of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in Tehran, Saturday, Sept. 22, 2001. "Sacred Defense Week" honors those killed in the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war.

Photo by Hasan Sarbakhshian / AP

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