Tasnim - The Iranian Police have peacefully dispersed hundreds of people at a southwestern border crossing as they tried to go to Iraq for the Arbaeen pilgrimage despite a travel ban because of the coronavirus outbreak, an official said. Director of the Iranian Polices Information and Communications Center said around 400 Iranian pilgrims gathered ...

Press TV - Millions of pilgrims, including a record number of Iranians, have gathered in Iraqs holy city of Karbala to commemorate Arbaeen, the 40th day after the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Hussein, the third Shia Imam. Among the pilgrims, which usually number 20 million from around the world every year, many arrive in Karbala after trekking ...

Tasnim Irans deputy interior minister for security affairs said so far, three million pilgrims have crossed the countrys four borders with Iraq during the Arbaeen season, which marks the 40th day after the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Hussein (AS), the third Shiite Imam. Speaking during a visit to the western province of Ilam on Monday, Hossein ...

Press TV - More than two million Iranian pilgrims have entered Iraq a week before annual Arbaeen processions are held in the holy city of Karbala. Speaking with Irans ISNAnews agency, deputy chief of operations forIrans police force Hossein Sajedi-Nia said the pilgrimshave entered Iraqduring the past two weeks. About three million Iranians have ...

Tasnim | Mehdi Pedramkhoo: A caravan of around 40,000 people left Irans southwestern city of Ahvaz on Monday evening for a procession towards Iraq to mark Arbaeen in commemoration of Imam Hussein (PBUH) martyrdom.    ...

Tasnim Some 35,000 pilgrims left Iran to visit Iraqs holy sites or returned to the country via Mehran border crossing in the western province of Ilam on Friday, showing a nine-fold increase compared to the same day last year, an official in the province said. Speaking to Tasnim, Head of Arbaeen Headquarters in Ilam Province Ahmad Karami said the ...

MNA Iranian Foreign Ministry issued a statement on Thursday and called on Iranian pilgrims heading to Iraq for Arbaeen ceremonies to delay their travel until normalization of conditions in Iraq. The Foreign Ministry also called on Iranian pilgrims to pay due attention to the political and security warnings of responsible officials strictly. The ...

IRNA One of the four Iranians who had been injured on Tuesday in a stampede in Karbala, Iraq, passed away on Wednesday. The pilgrim, Hossein Khavari, 31, passed away on Wednesday, said the representative of medical center of Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization of Khorasan Razavi Province. The mourning ceremony is held annually to commemorate the ...

MNA The Iraqi paramilitary Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) cast the blame for the recent attack on a pilgrim bus south of the central Iraqi city of Balad on the ISIL terror group. On Sunday, the bus, which was carrying pilgrims to a Shia mausoleum in Balad, struck a roadside bomb south of the city. It was initially reported that some of the pilgrims ...

MNA Head of Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization Alireza Rashidian said that talks are underway between Iranian and Syrian authorities for sending Iranian pilgrims to Syria. Constructive talks were made in this regard, the result of which would be specified in less than a month, he maintained. Necessary feasibility studies have been carried out ...

AFP - A 15-minute walk from the Iraqi border in the west Iranian town of Mehran, three young clerics are hard at work polishing the shoes of pilgrims. Farther down the road another cleric stands on a chair holding a Quran over the heads of passing crowds, blessing them as they march in the thousands towards the shrine of Imam Hussein in Karbala,...

IRNA The collision of a bus and a van in Kut, eastern Iraq on Monday claimed the lives of 11 Iranian pilgrims and injured 19 more. Speaking to the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), an informed source said that the accident happened in the morning when a van which was on its way from Mehran to Kut hit an Iranian bus moving toward Jassan. Based ...

AFP - At the border town of Mehran between Iran and Iraq, a sea of pilgrims surges forwards, en route to one of the biggest religious pilgrimages on the planet. Iranian organisers say more than 1.8 million Iraqi visas have been issued for Iranians this year for the Arbaeen pilgrimage which culminates on Tuesday as the devout head, many by foot, ...

IRNA Over 1.6 Iranians have arrived in Iraq from three border terminals to participate in Arbaeen pilgrimage, according to a police official in charge of organizing Arbaeen rituals. Speaking to reporters in Mehran border terminal, Brigadier-General Mohsen Fathizadeh said that over 440,000 Iranian pilgrims have returned to Iran from Iraq so far....

FNA - Tehran is in the last stage of talks with Baghdad to replace dollar with Iran's national currency, rial, when issuing visa for Iranian pilgrims who are due to visit Iraq in Arbaeen ceremony, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi said. "The negotiating sides of both countries are holding talks and consultations in this regard and the negotiations ...

MNA Iranian Hajj pilgrims are planned to start returning home from Monday all through Sep. 15, according to an Iranian airports official. The director of Iranian Hajj Operations Department at the Air Fleet and Airports Company Mahmoud Razavi said on Saturday that the first return flight will leave Medina for Irans Bushehr airport on August 27 and ...

Reuters | Muhammad Yamany: More than two million Muslim pilgrims hurled pebbles at a giant wall in a symbolic stoning of the devil on Tuesday, the start of the riskiest part of the annual haj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia where hundreds died in a crush three years ago. Clad in white robes signifying a state of purity, men and women from 165 countries ...

IRNA Thousands of Iranians along with pilgrims from other countries held on Monday the Disavowal of Pagans ceremony in Arafat Desert, 20 km southeast of holy city of Mecca in west of Saudi Arabia. The ceremony started after a message to the annual Hajj congregation by the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei was ...

AP Iraq is reducing visa charges for Iranian pilgrims who visit to mark a major religious occasion later this year. The reduction will only apply to pilgrims of the Arbaeen, the anniversary of the passage of 40 days after the martyrdom of the deeply revered Shia Imam Hussein, the Prophet Muhammads grandson. News of the reduction of the visa ...

IRNA By the end of August 13, 80,000 Iranians had arrived at the Saudi airports to take part in the huge congregation of Hajj, a Hajj official on Tuesday told the Islamic Republic News Agency. 'So far 293 flights have taken Iranian pilgrims to Saudi Arabia, 177 of which have been Iranian flights and 177 Saudi ones,' said Mahmoud Razavi. This ...