A day earlier, he self-immolated in front of the Iranian Parliament’s building. Dozens of Yarsanis who had come to Tehran from different cities gathered in front of the hospital, following which security forces and anti-riot police unit were stationed in the area and asked the people to disperse. Ghanbari was in his mid-twenties and was originally from a village around Qazvin. In less than a two-month period, he was the third Yarsan who lost his life due to self-immolation. They devoted their lives to protest against discrimination against their community. They staged the self-immolation protest after the officials in Hamedan prison forcibly shaved a Yarsani man’s mustache who had been imprisoned because of a family dispute. It was an unspeakable insult to the Yarsanis community as Yarsani men’s long distinctive mustache is a classic characteristic of their faith and if shaved means spiritual death for them.