Tasnim The deputy head of Irans Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization said the dispatching of nationals to Saudi Arabias holy cities for performing the Umrah (minor Hajj) pilgrimage will resume if the kingdom accepts the Islamic Republics conditions. In remarks on Tuesday, Akbar Rezaei said that negotiations with Saudi Arabia over the resumption of ...

IRNA Vice Chairman of Majlis (Parliament) Article 90 Commission said that no Iranian pilgrims would be sent to Saudi Arabia this year for Hajj congregation unless Riyadh provided essential guarantees for their security. Of course, all measures for performing Hajj rituals have already been made and Iran will resume dispatch of Hajj pilgrims immediately ...

IFP- In his first press conference, Reza Salehi Amiri, the Iranian Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance, explained Irans conditions to resume sending pilgrims to Saudi Arabia. The Islamic Republics official policy is to ensure that the dignity and security of its pilgrims is guaranteed in Hajj pilgrimage, he noted, according to a report by IFP....

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Spokesman for the Iranian administration expressed the cabinets determination to relieve the pains of those who lost their loved ones in a fatal crush of pilgrims in Saudi Arabia during last years Hajj. Speaking at a weekly press conference in Tehran on Tuesday, Mohammad Baqer Nobakht said the administration has ordered the ...

Tehran, Sept 12, IRNA Senior cleric Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami said on Monday that the criminal House of Saud should go on trial in an Islamic court and be punished for what they did during last year Hajj tragedy. Ayatollah Khatami made the remarks while recalling crimes committed by Saudi rulers in dealing with the pilgrims in last year Hajj tragedy ...

Rasht, Sept 10, IRNA Head of Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization underlined that Iran is seriously following up setting up a fact-finding committee to investigate Mina tragic incident which resulted in death of nearly 500 Iranians during last years Hajj rituals. If the fact-finding committee will be formed, many realities of this bitter tragedy which ...

Tehran, Sept 7, IRNA Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei on Wednesday demanded an international and Islamic inquiry into deaths of Iranian pilgrims and blood money the Saudis must pay to the families who lost their loved ones. The Supreme Leader made the remarks in a meeting with the families of martyrs of Mina ...

Tehran, Sept 8 IRNA - The Mina tragedy last year demonstrated the incompetence of Saudi rulers in managing the Hajj pilgrimage, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qasemi said on Wednesday. He made the remarks in reaction to the recent remarks by Secretary General of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC) Abdullatif bin Rashid al-Zayani in support ...

Tehran, Sept 3, IRNA Families of victims of Mina tragedy took their complaints with the Supreme Leader against Saudi government seeking compensation for their loved ones. Several hundered Iranian Hajj pilgrims were martyred due to negligence of the Saudi government in the course of Hajj pilgrimage last year. Iran invoked substantive International ...

Tehran, Sept 2, IRNA Substitute Friday prayers leader of Tehran Ayatollah Mohammad-Ali Movahedi Kermani says Iran has not forgotten the dirty natured Mina catastrophe and will not forget it in the future either. Delivering his second sermon to this week's Friday prayers congregation in Tehran University camps, Ayatollah Kermani said, 'We will never ...

An Iranian official says the country will spare no effort to restore the rights of the victims of a deadly crush during last years Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia. Head of Irans Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization Saeed Ohadi said on Saturday that a session was held on Wednesday, which was attended by Deputy Foreign Minister Hassan Qashqavi and ...

Tehran, Aug 10, IRNA There is no need for a third party to mediate between Iran and Saudi Arabia, says Iran's Head of Hajj and Pilgrimage Affairs Organization Hojjatoleslam Seyed Ali Qazi Asgar. The Islamic Republic's stance is quite clear,' Qazi Asgar said in a press meeting at the Headquarters of the Islamic Republic News Agency on Wednesday. Answering ...

Iran says Saudi Arabia must be held to account for the death of thousands of Muslims inlast years Mina tragedy during the Hajj rituals. As the Muslim ummah is well aware, incompetentSaudiofficials are undoubtedlyresponsiblefor the tragic incident andthey should be seriously held to account for the tragedy, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram ...

Tehran. May 30, The Iran Project - A Lebanese Middle East expertsays Saudi Arabia prefers political issues to (easing) Hajj, stressing growing tension between Saudi and Iran. Speaking to a reporter on Monday,Tallal Etrisi, a Lebanese university professor slammed Saudi Arabia's refusal toguarantee thesecurity and safety of Iranian pilgrims, saying ...

Tehran, Feb 3, IRNA British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Persian reporter on Thursday night misquoted a part of Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif's remarks. Zarif had in his yesterday address in British House of Commons that the level of 'certain neglection of responsibilities' in this year's deadly Hajj pilgrimage incidence in Mina ...

Tehran,January 5, The Iran Project Irans government spokesman says Umrah Hajj pilgrimage wont be performed until the secure condition is provided. In his weekly press conference with the media on Tuesday, Irans government spokesman Mohammad Bagher Nobakht said Iran has officially suspended Umrah Hajj pilgrimage until the secure condition is provided ...

Tehran, Dec 18, IRNA Tests taken in Iran show that Ghazanfar Roknabadi, the former Iranian ambassador to Beirut, who lost his life in the Hajj stampede near Mecca, Saudi Arabia, died of hot weather and lack of treatment like other Iranian pilgrims, senior Foreign Ministry official said. Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, the Deputy Foreign Minister for ...