The Battle of Karbala was fought on 10 October 680 between the army of the second Umayyad caliph Yazid I and a small army led by Husayn ibn Ali, the grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, at Karbala, Sawad. From Wikipedia
Held on June 27 in Tehran, the ceremony recalled Ali Asghar’s 680 A.D. martyrdom as an affirmation of defiance against U.S. and Israeli adversaries
