Iran: Riyadh warns visiting pilgrims
Issue 1085
- 19 Jul 2019
| 1 minute read
Saudi Arabia has warned visiting pilgrims to focus on religion and leave politics to one side when performing Hajj this year. Media minister Turki Bin Abdullah Al-Shabanah on 9 July urged visitors to refrain from “raising any political or doctrinal slogans”, following comments on 3 July by Iran’s Rahbar (Supreme Leader) Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that the Hajj was “a political act”; he criticised Saudi security measures around the pilgrimage. More than 86,000 Iranians are scheduled to perform Hajj this year. The regional rivals have fallen out over the Hajj before.
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