Slain Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s jail diary sells like hot cakes in this year’s Kashmir book festival
Read | Escalation trap: On the U.S. and the war with Iran“Khamenei’s jail diary, ‘Cell No. We had a buyer who took 60 copies of it from the Chenab Valley of J&K,” said a salesman at the stall.The ongoing war between Iran and the U.S. has generated a lot of interest among readers in Kashmir to know about the spiritual leadership of Iran, which has shaped the country in the past four decades.“’Cell No. It gives a peek into what revolutionaries in Iran suffered under the Shah regime.
- ▪Read | Escalation trap: On the U.S. and the war with Iran“Khamenei’s jail diary, ‘Cell No.
- ▪We had a buyer who took 60 copies of it from the Chenab Valley of J&K,” said a salesman at the stall.The ongoing war between Iran and the U.S. has generated a lot of interest among readers in Kashmir to know about the spiritual leadership o
- ▪It gives a peek into what revolutionaries in Iran suffered under the Shah regime.
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As a spin-off of the ongoing war between Iran and the U.S., slain Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s jail diary is selling like hot cakes at the book festival in Srinagar.Buyers are jostling at the stall set up by the Mutahhari Fikri Wa Saqafati Markaz at the Sher-i-Kashmir International Convention Centre (SKICC) on the banks of the Dal Lake, with peak footfall of 20,000 visitors a day. Many local Shia clerics are recording videos on buying these books for social media platforms.The front desk of the stall pavilion has stacks of books authored by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the architect of the 1979 Iranian revolution, and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader, who was killed in a joint attack of the Israel and the U.S. on February 28 this year.
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