Iranian pilgrims destined for Iraq in defiance of travel ban halted
Tasnim – The Iranian Police have peacefully dispersed hundreds of people at a southwestern border crossing as they tried to go to…
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Millions of Arba’een pilgrims from around the world gather in Karbala
Press TV – Millions of pilgrims, including a record number of Iranians, have gathered in Iraq’s holy city of Karbala to commemorate…
3 million pilgrims cross Iran’s border with Iraq for Arbaeen: Official
Tasnim – Iran’s deputy interior minister for security affairs said so far, three million pilgrims have crossed the country’s four borders with…
More than two million Iranian pilgrims enter Iraq for Arba’een pilgrimage
Press TV – More than two million Iranian pilgrims have entered Iraq a week before annual Arba’een processions are held in the…
Photos: Large caravan of Arbaeen pilgrims leave Iran for Iraq
Tasnim | Mehdi Pedramkhoo: A caravan of around 40,000 people left Iran’s southwestern city of Ahvaz on Monday evening for a procession…
Nine-fold rise in number of Iranian pilgrims visiting Iraq via Mehran border: Official
Tasnim – Some 35,000 pilgrims left Iran to visit Iraq’s holy sites or returned to the country via Mehran border crossing in…
FM calls on Iranian pilgrims for Arbaeen to take security warnings into serious consideration
MNA – Iranian Foreign Ministry issued a statement on Thursday and called on Iranian pilgrims heading to Iraq for Arbaeen ceremonies to…
One Iranian pilgrim dies of injures in Karbala stampede
IRNA – One of the four Iranians who had been injured on Tuesday in a stampede in Karbala, Iraq, passed away on…
Iraqi paramilitary forces allege ISIL responsibility in Pilgrim bus attack
MNA – The Iraqi paramilitary Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) cast the blame for the recent attack on a pilgrim bus south of…
Talks underway for dispatching Iranian pilgrims to Syria
MNA – Head of Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization Alireza Rashidian said that talks are underway between Iranian and Syrian authorities for sending…
Iranians find joy in serving pilgrims on road to Karbala
AFP – A 15-minute walk from the Iraqi border in the west Iranian town of Mehran, three young clerics are hard at…
Car crash kills 11 Iranian pilgrims, injures 19 in eastern Iraq
IRNA – The collision of a bus and a van in Kut, eastern Iraq on Monday claimed the lives of 11 Iranian…
Over 2 million Iranians entered Iraq for Arbaeen
AFP – At the border town of Mehran between Iran and Iraq, a sea of pilgrims surges forwards, en route to one…
Over 1.6m Iranians in Iraq for Arbaeen pilgrimage
IRNA – Over 1.6 Iranians have arrived in Iraq from three border terminals to participate in Arbaeen pilgrimage, according to a police…
Tehran in final talks with Iraq on rial-based visa for Iranian pilgrims
FNA – Tehran is in the last stage of talks with Baghdad to replace dollar with Iran’s national currency, rial, when issuing…
Iranian Hajj pilgrims to start returning home from Aug. 27
MNA – Iranian Hajj pilgrims are planned to start returning home from Monday all through Sep. 15, according to an Iranian airports…
Muslims at Hajj converge on Jamarat for ritual stoning of the devil
Reuters | Muhammad Yamany: More than two million Muslim pilgrims hurled pebbles at a giant wall in a symbolic stoning of the…
Disavowal of Pagans ceremony held in Saudi Arafat Desert
IRNA – Thousands of Iranians along with pilgrims from other countries held on Monday the Disavowal of Pagans ceremony in Arafat Desert,…
Iraq to reduce visa charges for Iranian pilgrims
AP — Iraq is reducing visa charges for Iranian pilgrims who visit to mark a major religious occasion later this year. The…
80,000 Iranians attending Hajj
IRNA – By the end of August 13, 80,000 Iranians had arrived at the Saudi airports to take part in the huge…
Official promises ‘safe Hajj rituals’ for Iranian pilgrims this year
MNA – Head of Iran’s Hajj and Pilgrimage Organizations Hamid Mohammadi underlined the need for holding of a safe Hajj this year,…
43 Iranian pilgrims wounded by fire in Iraqi hotel
IFP -A blaze that broke out inside a hotel in the Iraqi holy city of Najaf has so far wounded dozens of…
Thousands of Iranian pilgrims flock to Karbala for Arbaeen ceremonies
November 5, The Iran Project – So far thousands of Iranian pilgrims have flocked to Karbala to attend the Arbaeen rituals, one…
Iran uses balloon to provide Internet access for Arba’een pilgrims
IFP- Iran has deployed a balloon in its border with Iraq as part of an unprecedented project to provide free Wi-Fi internet…
Photos: High number of Iranian pilgrims enter Iraq ahead of Arbaeen
Tasnim | Seyyed Mohammad Hassan Miremadi: Thousands of pilgrims have gathered at Iran-Iraq joint border crossings to enter the Arab country ahead…
Iranian return to hajj could help end Saudi deadlock
Al-Monitor | Saeid Jafari: For the first time in two years, Tehran has sent Iranian pilgrims to Saudi Arabia for the annual…
90,000 pilgrims back to Iran through Mehran border
IRNA – Deputy Head of Arbaeen ceremony headquarters of Ilam Hossein Kalantari said that some 90,000 Iranian pilgrims returned from Karbala through…
Iranian pilgrims with no Iraqi visas sent back home
IRNA – Spokesman for Arbaeen ceremony headquarters Hamid Reza Godarzi said on Friday that a number of the Iranian pilgrims who had…
Photos: Arbaeen pilgrims
MNA|Reza Najjari: Since the beginning of the Arbaeen walk, many Iranian pilgrims have set foot on the road of love.
President deplores deaths of 28 pilgrims of Karbala in bus crash
IRNA – President Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday deplored deaths of 28 pilgrims of Karbala in bus crash between Iranian towns of Eqlid…
Iran rejects claims over substitution of Karbala for Mecca
Tehran, Sept 13, IRNA – Iranian Embassy in Kuwait has refused the unfounded reports made and spread by certain Arab media that…
Saudi Arabia creating problems in Iran Hajj talks: Iran minister
Iran’s minister of culture and Islamic guidance says Saudi Arabia is creating problems for the dispatch of Iranian pilgrims to this year’s…
Iranian pilgrims concerned due to forged Arbaeen visas
Tehran, Dec 26, IRNA- Iraqi Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization’s representative, Mostafa Ghasemi, said that some of the Iranian pilgrims were in trouble…
Iranian deputy FM: visa requirements for pilgrimage to Iraq not to be lifted
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Consular, Parliamentary and Expatriates’ Affairs Hassan Qashqavi announced that visa requirements for pilgrims traveling…
Iraq’s visa for Arbaeen pilgrims mandatory: Iranian diplomat
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – An Iranian deputy foreign minister quashed rumors that Iraq has removed visa requirements for the pilgrims going to the…
Iranian drones to safeguard safety of Arbaeen pilgrims
Tehran, Nov. 28, IRNA – Commander of Army Ground Force Brigadier General Ahmad-Reza Pourdastan said the drones and aerial surveillance would safeguard…
1.3 mln Iranian pilgrims receive Iraqi visa for Arbaeen: Official
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iraq has so far given 1.3 million Iranian applicants visas for going on pilgrimage to the Arab country’s city…
850,000 visas issued to Arbaeen pilgrims: Iranian official
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iraqi authorities have issued 850, 000 visas to Iranian pilgrims planning to visit Iraq’s holy city of Karbala for…
Iraq spares no effort to give due services to pilgrims
Baghdad, Nov 15, IRNA – Interior Minister of Iraq Mohammed Al-Ghabban said here that his country spares no effort to offer due…
Baghdad-based officials reject attack on Iranian pilgrims in Iraq
Baghdad, Oct 27, IRNA – The officials in charge of concerned Iranian institutions in Iraq rejected the news on the attack on…