Despite the Gonabadi Dervishes from the city of Khorramshahr lodged a complaint against religious extremists, anti-Sufis graffiti and assault and battery on a Dervish, the threatening phone calls and text messages warning Dervishes about closing Dervishes ceremonies, continues.

After a number of religious extremists brutally beat a Gonabadi Dervish in the city of Khorramshah with making telephone threats and graffiti on Dervishes’s places of worship, Mr. Abbas Hashemi who is responsible for holding Dervish ceremonies in the city of Khorramshahr and Mr. Amin Azadi who were beaten by the extremists along with their lawyer, Mr. Nazari referred to the Justice Department to file a complaint asking to pursue the matter and identify alleged perpetrators led to troubling movement against Gonabadi Dervishes there.
Despite the pursuing this matter by the second branch of the judiciary and completion of certain stages of facial recognition, Dervishes are still receiving threatening phone calls and even their lawyer has been warned to stop pursuing his clients’s case and their complaint. The religious extremists have also emphasized that the judge has no discretion and the Dervishes ceremonies should be closed!
According to Majzooban Noor, by the beginning of the month of Muharram and holding mourning ceremony for Imam Hussein, Sayyid-as-Shuhadaa (Leader of Martyrs), a number of religious extremists who are known as “Fatemiyon group”, have started to bring wave of intimidation against the Gonabadi Dervishes in the city of Khorramshahr. The threats started with a series of phone calls to Dervishes residents in Khorramshahr and continued to write graffiti against sufis on the door of the Dervishes’s places of worship in the aim of closing the Dervish ceremonies. Eventually, it led to beat a Gonabadi Dervish in order to force him to declare renunciation of his faith (Sufi school).