The Iranian rite of Ashura, between religion and politics

During the ashura ceremony, the Shiites mythically refer to the exemplary self-sacrifice of the third Imam Husayn by inserting him in the cosmological context of the cosmic war, of Madzeist derivation, among the principles of good against evil; then a continuous union between the political and religious spheres, the boundaries between the two are becoming more and more confused, and the religious dimension justifies the political sentiment, while the local sentiment leads to a global drama.