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By the end of 2013, I decided to relocate to Iraq and continue my advanced studies within its Islamic seminaries. I relocated to the Holy City of Karbala, and studied under the authority of its most prominent Islamic authorities between January 2014 and December 2015. Because I am also an Iraqi citizen, I did not require a visa to stay in Iraq. It was an open environment where students were not restricted by any government laws or policies. The two cities of Najaf and Karbala contain the leading Islamic seminaries within Shia Islam. However, Qum is and will always be viewed as a place for students to gain their basics in Islamic studies, unless of course they study independently and outside the boundaries of the curriculum of the Islamic universities.

At the beginning of 2014, I assisted in the founding of Imam Hussein TV 3 in the Holy City of Karbala, Iraq, and began to coordinate its research department and present television programs in English. Out of the two main schools of thought within Shia Islam in the twenty-first century, I began to promote the non-political school of Sadiq Shirazi over the tyrannical and terrorist Iranian regime of Ali Khamenei. I was studying from 8 am to 4 pm, then working at the TV channel headquarters until bedtime, which is where my residence also was at the time.