To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading your web browser The decision was announced today by Minister of Culture Ali Jannati with regard to depriving Iranians of performing pilgrimage this year, and ascribed the reason to what he called "Saudi restrictions". The ...
Muslim pilgrims circle the Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque in the Muslim holy city of Makkah, Saudi Arabia, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2015. (AP)/ Iran on Sunday said it will not allow its citizens from taking part in this year's Hajj pilgrimage in Makkah and blamed it on Saudi officials, ...
Iran Will Not Send Hajj Pilgrims To Mecca, Blames Saudi Arabia/ Iranians will not take part in this year's Mecca pilgrimage because of "obstacles" set by Saudi Arabia, Iran's Culture Minister Ali Jannati said on May 29. The Iranian Hajj Organization said that"Saudi Arabia is opposing the ...
Iran will boycott the Hajj pilgrimage in a further sign of deteriorating relations with Saudi Arabia, exacerbated by the of hundreds of Iranian pilgrims in a stampede outside Mecca last year. “Given the treatment and rhetoric by Saudi officials in two rounds of talks with the Iranian delegation ...
Negotiations last week were described as ‘positive’ and a deal was to be signed but the Iranian delegation failed to show up/ Manama: Iran will not send would-be pilgrims this year to perform Haj, the fifth pillar of Islam, in Saudi Arabia. Culture Minister Ali Jannati on Sunday attributed the ...
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The family of a gay British-Mexican man held in Qatar for alleged drug offences has given further details of what they say was a "honeytrap" operation using the gay dating app, Grindr./ Manuel Guerrero Aviña was approached online by a man called "Gio" and they arranged to meet - but he was ...
Two human rights groups have condemned an 11-year prison sentence handed to a Saudi fitness instructor and women's rights activist by a terrorism court./ Manahel al-Otaibi, 29, was convicted of charges related to her clothing choices and expression of her views online,/ These included calls for ...
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Spiralling tensions and cross-border strikes which have killed more than 70 civilians in Lebanon have turned parts of south into ghost towns. Residents have fled, leaving their homes at risk of destruction. The BBC went on patrol with the UN's peacekeeping force there to see what has happened./ ...
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