More than a thousand miles from Iran, Muslim residents in Indian-controlled Kashmir were collecting donations for Iranians: gold, cash, even utensils and livestock.

Community leaders and elders set up stalls in the disputed Himalayan region, which is overwhelmingly Muslim and split between India and Pakistan but coveted in its entirety by both.

Young volunteers were going door-to-door to collect contributions.

Women donated their gold jewelry, bangles and earrings.

“In the morning I told my wife, everyone is donating, you too should donate, she picked up her ring and told me to give it away in the name of Iran,” Amaan Shah said, a donor.

Many households offered their traditional copperware or livestock, and children have brought in their savings – some carrying piggy banks to collection points.