61,000 Iranians to Perform Hajj This Year
Speaking to IQNA, Saeed Ohadi said Iran’s Hajj quota this year is like the previous year’s, namely 61,000, but noted that the quota will rise to over 100,000.
The rise in the country’s Hajj quota will come after the competition of the project to develop Masjid al-Haram in the holy city of Mecca, he said.
Saudi authorities have said that once the project is finished, all countries’ quotas will rise by 50 percent.
While Iran plans to send pilgrims to Hajj this year like before, the country suspended the Umrah (minor) Hajj pilgrimage in April in the wake of molestation of two Iranian teenage pilgrims at Jeddah airport.
The Iranian teenage boys were harassed by two Saudi officers at Jeddah’s King Abdulaziz International Airport when the offenders took them away during body search, citing suspicion.
The two criminal police officers were tried at Jeddah's Criminal Court in June but no verdict has been announced yet.
