In November 1979, the Moshir al-Saltaneh Hosseinieh, also known as Amir-Soleimani Hosseinieh, located on Behesht Street in Tehran, was looted and burned to the ground by a group of vigilantes.*
During the same period, violent revolutionary religious groups destroyed the tomb of at least one Nematollahi Gonabadi spiritual leader in the Shah Abdul Azim area in Shahr-e-Rey, south of Tehran. The perpetrators of these attacks were mainly influenced by Shiʿa clerics. They justified their actions by accusing Dervishes of misleading the people.
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