Virginia imam who honored slain Ayatollah Khamenei at mosque memorial flees to Iran

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The Manassas Mosque, sandwiched in a strip mall just 30 miles from Washington, DC, is facing its own fight for survival after commemorating 'our leader' Ayatollah Ali Khamenei a day after he was killed in an airstrike in Tehran.

The Daily Mail has learned that the imam of the mosque Abolfazl Bahram Nahidian, who goes by Abu Nahidian, is trapped in Tehran with his wife.

'He's there right now,' security guard T. Beyah told the Daily Mail. 'We received a call from them. You could actually hear the bombs from where he is. We had to cut the call short.

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'He's okay, but he wanted us to know that if anything happens to him, we should continue what we're doing here in the mosque,' Beyah said.

'Did he say we should retaliate for what is happening? No,' he continued. 'Did he say go and seek vengeance? No. He said continue doing what we already do. Pray, act with one another.'

The Virginia mosque has been bombarded with angry phone calls and death threats from people furious that they would celebrate the death of the repressive Supreme Leader, who demonized the United States as 'the Great Satan'.

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