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TEHRAN — The speaker of Iran's Parliament, an open rival of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was pelted with shoes and stones in one of Iran's holiest shrines on Sunday, forcing him to cancel a speech there, the semiofficial Iranian Labour News Agency reported Monday.

Public parks are full and millions of pilgrims throng to shrines on holidays.Iraq's main problem is no longer its violence but its politics.

In June, militants claimed to have destroyed two Islamic shrines on the fringes of Palmyra, describing them as "manifestation of polytheism".

Crown Prince Abdullah replied that the presence of the two holy shrines on Saudi soil were the "primary restrictions" in making changes in the kingdom.

Another man told me of visiting "dream shrines" on the mountains, where people asked the ancestors for a dream to guide them on their path in life.

He also seems to be channelling the pagan folk tradition with references to the spirit of the Green Man and placing pentangles in tree shrines on Hollow Ponds.

Citing threats, one beloved shrine on the outskirts of Karachi has not held its annual celebration for several years now.

We visited the shrine on Saturday.

There is now a small shrine on Bay Street.

They all were near the Kedarnath shrine on the morning of June 17.

He now had his own barbershop, opposite the brightly painted Qaim Shah Bukhari shrine on VIP Road in Larkana.