FNA - Saudi Arabia has banned Iran's representative for 2015 Mina and Mecca twin incidents from entering the Arab country as the legal situation of the family members of those killed in the tragedy has remained unresolved after over 5 years. Irans representative who has pursued the legal aspects of the incident has for a long time been banned from ...

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 ...

Tasnim A senior adviser to Irans parliament speaker censured Saudi Arabia for its poor handling of the tragic case of deaths of thousands of Hajj pilgrims in Mina in September 2015, saying the kingdom continues to behave irresponsibly two years after the incident. In an interview with Tasnim, Hossein Amir Abdollahian said Saudi Arabia has behaved ...

Iranian Diplomacy- Pro-reform newspaper Arman Daily has reviewed the latest updates in Tehran-Riyadh ties, seen as a harbinger of dtente. The 2015Mina stampedeand the Saudi embassyattackin Tehran led to the general perception that there is no hope in the normalization of the long-strained relations between Tehran and Riyadh. However, thehandshakebetween ...

Press TV- Eleven relatives of the Iranian victims of the 2015 Hajjcrush in Saudi Arabia are to travel to the kingdom to identify their loved ones. Seyyed Ali Qazi-Askar, the representative of Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei in Hajj and pilgrimage affairs, made the remarks on Saturday. The human crush in Mina,...

February 15, The Iran Project A member of Irans Parliament National Security and Foreign Policy Committeehas stressed that Saudi Arabia strengthens improper diplomatic behavior, such as Takfiri ideology, however, Tehran-Riyadh relations should be restablished in order to send Iranian pilgrims to Hajj rituals. Speaking to a reporter on Wednesday,...

MNA Deputy-FM for Consular, Parliamentary and Expatriates' Affairs has said Saudi Arabia could not have been sued in international court for Mina incident, legal experts say. Mr. Hassan Ghashghavi who was speaking to the press about the latest developments in Mina incident of September 2015 criticized the media for their constantly questioning ...

October 15, The Iran Project - Following widening its rift with Iran, theSaudi Directorate General for Passports said it put Iran on its travel blacklist, banning Saudi citizens from traveling to the country. TheSaudi Directorate General for Passports posted a messageon its Twitteraccount saying Saudi citizens are forbidden to travel to certain ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Head of Iran's Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization Saeed Ohadi announced that the parliaments Judicial and Legal Affairs Commission plans to provide consultations on ways to restore the rights of Iranian victims of last years deadly crush of people in Saudi Arabia. Speaking to the Tasnim News Agency, Ohadi said last week, a meeting ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) A ranking Iranian diplomat highlighted the Foreign Ministrys efforts to restore the rights of families of Iranians who died in a tragic crush of pilgrims in Saudi Arabias Mina last year, saying consultations have been held with European and Arab lawyers on the case. Iranian delegations have been or are being deployed to some European ...

Irans deputy ambassador to the United Nations says Saudi Arabia has been refusing to conduct a responsible, thoroughand transparent investigation into adeadly crush during Hajj rituals last year. Gholam-Hossein Dehqani made the remarks at a meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)s foreign ministers, held in New York on the sidelines ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Saudi Arabias refusal to apologize for the deaths of thousands of pilgrims in a deadly crush of people in last years Hajj or its failure to identify those at fault raises doubts about involvement of government officials in the incident, top Iranian official Ali Shamkhani said. The Saudi governments conduct, its refusal to apologize ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Irans Foreign Ministry spokesman on Monday shrugged off recent allegations made by the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC), saying such futile tactics could not help Saudi Arabia shirk its responsibility for the deaths of thousands of pilgrims in last years Hajj. Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi slammed an anti-Iran ...

September 17, The Iran Project Thesupreme leader's representative in theSupreme National Security Council, Saeed Jalili calls the Al Saud regime a clear example of American Islam. Attending the martyrdom anniversary of top Iranian space scientist and university professorAhmad Hatami who was killed in the crane collapse in Mecca's Grand Mosque, ...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- Saudi Arabia has launched a Farsi-language satellite television channel broadcasting the hajj as Iranians abstain from the pilgrimage amid a dispute between the two regional rivals. The Saudi Minister of Culture and Information Adel al-Toraifi tells Saudi media that the channel is also being broadcast by radio to Iran,...

TEHRAN, Sep. 11 (MNA) Hajj 2016 is proceeding while Iranian pilgrims didn't attend one of the biggest Muslim ceremonies due to conflicts between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Meanwhile, some pilgrims from Syria, Yemen, Lebanon and Iraq were also prevented from travel to Mecca because of harsh policies of the new generation of Saudi rulers. Since 2011,...

TEHRAN, Sep. 11 (MNA) Foreign Minister Javad Zarif has ensured the nation despite Saudi incompetence and covert sabotage, rights of the victims of Mina incident of 2015 hajj rituals will be addressed with seriousness. Zarif's message offered condolences to nation on their loss of the loved ones during Mina stampede of 2015, which it believed, was ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Senior Iranian cleric Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi vowed that the Islamic Ummah (community) would definitely get revenge against the Saudi regime for the tragic deaths of Hajj pilgrims in Mina last year. As we are approaching the days of Hajj rituals in Mina, the sad memories of last year's martyrs are more and more seared into ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- The last year's tragic Mina incident is still a source of shame and disrepute for the Saudi regime, Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani said, adding that the terrorists in the region take orders from the Riyadh government. "The Mina tragedy is a slur for Al Salman," Shamkhani said on Saturday....

Marching with thousands of other pilgrims at last years hajj in Saudi Arabia, 23-year-old Sobia Noor of Pakistan felt the crowd get tighter and the air grow thicker in the scorching heat. Suddenly, there was shouting and crying along the narrow street bordered by tall metal barriers. She was holding hands tightly with her mother and aunt, but ...