At one time, some of the Iranian clergymen and scholars of religion entered Iraq from the city of Abadan illegally and without obtaining entry permits. Thus sometimes they would be arrested by the Iraqi authorities and put into prison and would also be insulted and thereafter, with the intervention and recommendation of the theologians, they would be saved and allowed to perform the pilgrimage in Karbala and Najaf. One night when I was in the presence of the Imam, his holiness expressed concern on this subject and stated: “Pilgrimage of the mausoleum of Imam Husayn (‘a) is not at all merited if it involves mistreatment and insult.”[1]