TEHRAN (IQNA) – A Quran recitation session was organized at Imamzadeh Jafar (AS) holy site in Yazd, central Iran, in memory of late Iranian Qari Hassan Danesh who died in a crush of pilgrims in Mina, Saudi Arabia, during last year’s Hajj.
News ID: 3460611 Publish Date : 2016/08/06
TEHRAN (IQNA) – 13 People will go on trial next week over a crane collapse in the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, that killed more than 100 pilgrims and injured 238 people days before the start of the annual Hajj pilgrimage last year.
News ID: 3460605 Publish Date : 2016/08/06
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A funeral ceremony was held in Tehran on Friday for former Iranian ambassador to Lebanon Ghazanfar Roknabadi.
News ID: 3457450 Publish Date : 2015/11/27
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The body of a former Iranian diplomat who had gone missing after a crush of people during Hajj has been found.
News ID: 3457256 Publish Date : 2015/11/26
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A new document leaked from Saudi Arabia’s health ministry shows that as many as 7477 pilgrims were killed in last month’s crush of people in Mina, near Makkah, during the Hajj rituals.
News ID: 3391042 Publish Date : 2015/10/21
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Head of the Iranian Hajj Mission, head of the country’s Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization and other Iranian Hajj officials met with Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei on Monday.
News ID: 3390589 Publish Date : 2015/10/20
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei underlined that the tragic crush of people in this year’s Hajj must not be forgotten.
News ID: 3390491 Publish Date : 2015/10/20
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Head of Iran’s Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization said the country continues to pursue the fate of Iranians still missing after the recent crush of Hajj pilgrims in Mina, Saudi Arabia.
News ID: 3385853 Publish Date : 2015/10/16
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani underlined the need for ensuring safety and wellbeing of pilgrims during the annual Hajj pilgrimage.
News ID: 3385276 Publish Date : 2015/10/14
TEHRAN (IQNA) – While Saudi authorities have come under fire for their inability to ensure the safety of Hajj pilgrims, Riyadh has said it plans to increase Umrah (minor) Hajj quotas.
News ID: 3384992 Publish Date : 2015/10/13
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The flight carrying the bodies of 87 more Iranian Hajj pilgrims killed in the recent crush in Mina, near the Saudi city of Makkah, landed at Tehran’s Mehrabad Airport early Tuesday.
News ID: 3384850 Publish Date : 2015/10/13
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The World Union of Muslim Women in a statement expressed condolences over the martyrdom of hundreds of pilgrims from different countries in a crush in Mina, near the holy city of Makkah during Hajj.
News ID: 3384796 Publish Date : 2015/10/13
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A ceremony was held Thursday, October 8, at the Iranian Cultural Center in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to commemorate the Hajj pilgrims killed in a recent crush in Mina, Saudi Arabia.
News ID: 3383616 Publish Date : 2015/10/10
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Head of the Iranian Quranic delegation to Hajj, Saleh Atharifard, and three members of the delegation returned home.
News ID: 3383417 Publish Date : 2015/10/10
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Tanzania’s Muslim scholars have demanded formation of an international probe team on the cause of a recent crush of Hajj pilgrims that took hundreds of lives, joining the world camp of those accusing the Saudi authorities of inefficiency in managing the world’s largest gathering of Muslims from across the globe.
News ID: 3377962 Publish Date : 2015/10/06
TEHRAN (IQNA) - The total number of Egyptians who died during a stampede in the hajj reached 138, with 96 still missing, announced Mohamed Mokhtar Juma, the Minister of Awqaf (religious endowment.)
News ID: 3379426 Publish Date : 2015/10/05
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Body of Hassan Danesh, an eminent Iranian Quran reciter who died in the recent crush in mina, Saudi Arabia, has been identified.
News ID: 3379229 Publish Date : 2015/10/04
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Mourning ceremonies were held in Tehran and a number of other cities on Sunday for a number of Iranian pilgrims who lost their lives in a recent crush in Saudi Arabia.
News ID: 3379202 Publish Date : 2015/10/04
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Bodies of 104 of Iranian Hajj pilgrims killed in recent Mina crush arrived at Mehrabad Airport in Tehran on Saturday.
News ID: 3379184 Publish Date : 2015/10/04
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Director of the Dar-ol-Quran Center of Kufa, Iraq, dismissed the claim raised by some Saudi officials that Iran has been politicizing the recent crush of Hajj pilgrims in Mina which left hundreds of pilgrims dead.
News ID: 3379130 Publish Date : 2015/10/04
