Ayatollah Rafsanjani has said that Saudi officials in charge of [maintaining] order in Hajj rituals are responsible for the incident near Mecca and should be answerable to the Islamic world.
Among its objectives, the task force would have to send over aid teams, if needed, and dispatch aircraft to Saudi Arabia in order to assist the pilgrims and the wounded.
The head of the Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization said that the Saudi officials had blocked two ways leading to the stoning point, thus causing the stampede.
Kamalvandi said that Tehran has insisted that evaluation of the samples be carried out faster to speed up what should be done under a Road-map signed with the UN nuclear watchdog.
War veterans have every right to opine about the country's major developments and should not be disheartened by the hue and cry of a loud minority, said Ayatollah Rafsanjani.
President Rouhani has praised Oman for its constructive role in regional developments, saying that Iran and Oman must cooperate to help end regional crises.
Iranian and French businessmen should draft an agreement to be signed by the two countries’ presidents when President Rouhani flies to Paris later this year, Soltanifar said.
We would like to see that the world’s public opinion trusts the IAEA, because confidence in the agency will give calm to the world’s people, President Rouhani told Amano.