TEHRAN (Tasnim) A high-ranking Iranian official said the resumption of the Umrah (minor) Hajj pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia hinges on the punishment of the police officers behind the harassment of two Iranian teenagers at Jeddah Airport last year. Iran has told Saudis that the offenders should be punished and that is a prerequisite for Tehran-Riyadh ...

TEHRAN, Aug. 01 (MNA) Iranian Deputy Culture Minister Hossein Noushabadi says the Saudis are evading reaching an actual sentence verdict for the two security officers accused of sexually harassing two Iranian teenagers. Spokesman of Iran's Culture and Islamic Guidance Ministry Hossein Noushabadi told Mehr News correspondent that the Saudi regime ...

Tehran, June 24, IRNA Foreign Ministry spokesman Marzieh Afkham said in Tehran on Wednesday that Tehran wants punishment of those Saudi officers abusing Iranian young adults at Jeddah Airport. 'Two court hearings have been held for the offenders and the prosecuting attorney has called for harsh punishment for them. Based on a report by Iranian ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister for Consular, Parliamentary and Expatriates' Affairs Hassan Qashqavi said the safety of Iranian pilgrims should be guaranteed before the Islamic Republic restarts the Umrah (minor) Hajj pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia. "If the safety (of Iranian pilgrims) is guaranteed, a logical and reasonable atmosphere ...

TEHRAN (ISNA)- Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said the sentence issued for the two criminal officers in Jeddah Airport would be announced and executed soon, said Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Countries Hossein Amir-Abdollahian. The sentences issued for the two officers will be announced and executed soon, Amir-Abdollahian ...

IFP has taken a look at the front pages of newspapers on Thursday and picked headlines from 16 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. Reformist dailies focused their front-page attention on the reverberations of the arrest of Hamid Baghaei, a deputy of the former president; while principlist dailies ...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- A Saudi security official says two airport employees have been convicted and sentenced to four years in prison each for sexually harassing two male Iranian pilgrims. The official says the court also ordered that the two workers at Jiddah International Airport receive 1,000 lashes each. The official spoke on condition ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Head of Iran's Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization Saeid Owhadi said that the two Saudi police officers who molested two Iranian teenagers at Jeddah Airport will go on trial before the lunar month of Ramadan (starts on June 18). Speaking to the Tasnim News Agency on Monday, Owhadi announced that Saudi Arabia's Hajj and foreign ministers ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Consular Affairs announced that the two Saudi officers who harassed two Iranian teenagers at Jeddah Airport were indicted for malversation and molestation. "The trial session of these two offending officers was held this morning in the 7th branch of Jeddah's criminal court," Qashqavi said on Monday,...

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Tehran, April 28, IRNA A group of Basiji (volunteer) employees from Tehran's governmental organizations gathered in front of the UN office in Tehran on Tuesday protesting against the criminal acts of the Saudi regime in Yemen. The demonstrators chanted slogans against the Saudi Arabia, the US and Israel. Condemning Riyadh's aggression on Yemen,...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Saudi Arabia informed Tehran on Tuesday that the two Jeddah airport police officers who had sexually abused two Iranian teenagers will receive harsh punishment soon. In a letter to the Islamic Republic of Iran's consulate in Jeddah, the Saudi foreign ministry announced that the two officers will receive maximum penalty. The letter ...

Tehran, April 28, IRNA The spokesman for the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance on Tuesday announced Iran will keep the Umrah Hajj pilgrimage closed as far as Saudi Arabia has not formally apologized over the recent event in Jeddah airport. Speaking to reporters in a weekly briefing session, Hossein Noushabadi called punishment of the perpetrators ...

The Saudi foreign minister says the two Saudi officers behind the sexual abuse of two teenage Iranian pilgrims at Jeddah airport will receivethe maximum penalty. During a Monday meeting with Iranian Ambassador to Riyadh Hossein Sadeqi, Saud al-Faisal said the countrys judiciary would investigate the case in the quickest time possible, adding that ...

Qom, April 16, IRNA - Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir Abdollahian said on Thursday that religious leaders (Ulema) by expressing their views helped the government make decision to suspend Umrah Haj pilgrimage. Speaking to IRNA on the sidelines of his meeting with Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi, he said he held separate ...

Tehran, April 15, IRNA Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham urged the Saudi government to follow up the incident in Jeddah airport with high sensitivity and zeal. Talking to reporters during her weekly press briefing, she said the whole Muslim community is showing sensitivity to what happened in Jeddah Airport. She said the Saudi government ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian university students staged a protest rally in front of the Saudi embassy in Tehran on Monday to condemn the Saudi aggression against Yemen and Jeddah airport police insult to the Iranian pilgrims, including the sexual abuse of two teenagers. Earlier this month, two Iranian teenagers were sexually abused by the Saudi police in ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Iran suspended the Umrah (minor) Hajj pilgrimage on Monday in the wake of molestation of two Iranian teenage pilgrims at Jeddah airport, saying the situation will be normalized once Riyadh hands out the maximum punishment to the offenders. Speaking to Tasnim on Monday, Spokesman for Iran's Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization Hossein ...

TEHRAN (ISNA)- Iran has officially suspended Umrah Hajj pilgrimage, said Iranian Minister of Culture Ali Jannati. The Organization of Hajj was ordered to temporarily suspend Umrah Hajj pilgrimage until the two criminals are tried and prosecuted, he said. The public dignity of Iranian nation has been damaged given what has happened. A public demand ...

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