Tehran, Aug 6, IRNA Iran will hold an international conference to commemorate victims of Mina tragedy which resulted in death of up to seven thousand Hajj pilgrims last year, senior Hajj official says. The first international conference in commemoration of Mina tragedy victims will be held in Tehran from September 3 to 11, Head of Iran's Hajj and ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) The representative of the Leader of the Islamic Revolution in Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization stressed on Saturday that Tehran is following up on an agreement with Riyadh on the compensation Saudi Arabia should pay to the families of Iranian victims of last years Mina crush. Saudi Arabia has not denied the payment of the blood ...

Tehran, Nov 1, IRNA Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif underlined that Saudi Arabia should determine the fate of other people missing in the Mina tragic incident, and said that Iran is waiting for return of the missing Tehran's former ambassador to Beirut Qazanfar Roknabadi. 'The foreign ministry and family of Mr. Roknabadi are waiting for his ...

Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said the scale of the Mina stampede has yet to be fully realized by countries of the world. Speaking in a meeting with the family of a Qom-based Koranic scholar killed in the incident, the top MP said Friday when he met the Russian president and informed him of the real number of the people killed in the incident,...

The Supreme Leader's representative for Hajj affairs said on Wednesday that the identity of 36 Iranian pilgrims who went missing during the Mina tragedy should be established as soon as possible. Seyyed Ali Ghazi Asgar further said that Iran can pursue the legal aspects of the deadly incident once the question of identities is settled, adding that ...

Tehran, Oct 28, IRAN - Secretary of the Guardian Council Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati on Wednesday sharply criticized death verdict issued for Sheikh Nimr by a Saudi court. Speaking to reporters, he said there is no doubt that the blood of innocent Hajj pilgrims will topple Al-Saud. He also strongly lambasted Al-Saud for issuing death verdict for ...

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said that Iran's former ambassador to Lebanon Ghazanfar Roknabadi is still unaccounted for but that he hopes the former diplomat returns to his family soon. Speaking at a funeral procession Tuesday for Ahmad Fahima, an Iranian Foreign Ministry official who was killed in the Mina stampede in Saudi Arabia, the ...

Tehran, Oct 12, IRNA Foreign Ministry Deputy for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir Abdollahian said the ministry is setting up a committee to follow up the fate of the Iranian pilgrims having gone missing in Mina stampede. Talking to IRNA on Monday, he said the missing Iranians include the former Iranian Ambassador to Lebanon Ghazanfar Roknabadi ...

Tehran, Oct 12, IRNA - Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs Abbas Araqchi said Iran is studying the tragic stampede incident in Saudi Arabia in which thousands of Hajj pilgrims including hundreds of Iranians were killed and wounded. 'The legal team of the Foreign Ministry as well as President Office's Legal Deputy Office, ...

Tehran, October 6, The Iran Project According to the latest statistics issued by Muslim countries, the death toll plusmissing pilgrimsin recent disaster reached 2950Muslim pilgrims. The Hajj pilgrimage related departments of each Muslim country separately published the latest statistics of its own nationals' victims, accounting the latest number ...