Middle East

Iran’s embassy in Beirut has said that the election of a president is a domestic issue of Lebanon and has nothing to do with other nations.

Alavi reiterated that Iran should follow up the Mina case in collaboration with other nations and Islamic countries.

Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said Iran and Russia have always supported the people and government of Syria in the face of terrorism.

The vice-president for legal affairs has said that Iran is not empty-handed to sue the Saudi government for failure to honor the international responsibility envisaged by the International Law Commission in 2001.

Two painful incidents took place in Mecca this year which left a lot of pilgrims from several Islamic countries dead and hurt sentiments of Muslims, Rafsanjani said.

A sort of harmony was evident in the speeches of Messrs. Obama, Putin and Rouhani as far as the future of Syria was concerned.

Ayatollah Khamenei also lashed out at Riyadh for failing to ensure the safety of Hajj pilgrims.

The secretary of the Expediency Council has said that the past behavior of the Saudis toward Iran suggests that they are seeking to undermine Iran’s regional power.

The Mina crush and its circumstances are suspicious because some of senior Iranian officials have been killed or gone missing in the incident, Ali Akbar Velayati said.

A former Iranian ambassador to Oman has said that the Islamic Republic should act vigilantly in dealing with the deadly stampede in Saudi Arabia.

President Rouhani said Iran is ready to cooperate with any country whose top priority is fighting terrorism.

Shamkhani said the Mina catastrophe was definitely due to the inefficiency of the Saudi government whose top priority was not the safety of the pilgrims.

The Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization has announced that the number of Iranian pilgrims who died in the Mina stampede has increased to 136.

Iranian newspapers on Saturday brought into focus the tragic incident in Mina on Thursday, which was the worst Hajj tragedy in 25 years.

The Iranian Cabinet has slammed Saudi mismanagement in dealing with Hajj pilgrims and decided to send a delegation led by the culture minister to Saudi Arabia for the management of the situation.

The qualitative and quantitative decline in the security standards in the Hajj played a decisive role in the catastrophe, Shamkhani said.

Iran’s interior minister in a letter to his Saudi counterpart has called for full investigation into the tragic stampede incident in Mina.

The death toll from a deadly crush during Hajj pilgrimage rituals in Mina, outside the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, has soared...

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 Saudi government should meet its obligations in compliance with the rule of righteousness and fairness, the leader said.

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.

The chief of staff of the armed forces has shown reaction to military threats by Republicans against Iran, saying that they are seeking to revive President Bush’s belligerent presidency.

The good history of Tehran-Amsterdam cooperation has paved the way for expansion of ties between the two countries, Ali Larijani said.

Without resort to war, the issue of Israel will be settled by the residents of the Palestinian territories in the next 25 years, Shirmardi predicted.

A famous Arab journalist has set out reasons for a change of course in the US Syria policy, saying that Washington is going to leave the Syrian crisis management to Moscow.