MNA Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Ghasemi expressed deep regret over a terrorist attack on a bus carrying Iranian pilgrims in the Iraqi city of Balad, which killed and wounded a number of them. In a Monday statement, Ghasemi strongly condemned the brutal and inhumane attack, saying that the Iranian Foreign Ministry and the countrys ...

Press TV - At least nine Iranian pilgrims have been wounded after their bus came under a terrorist attack in Iraqs northern province of Salahuddin, according to Iraqi media. The bus was targeted by gunmen on a road south of the town of Balad, some 50 kilometers north of Baghdad, on its way to a Shia shrine on Sunday, reports said. Morteza Aqaei,...

IFP - At least two Iranian women have been killed and another injured in a fire at a hotel in the holy city of Najaf in Iraq. The fire started at Al-Nasir Hotel, located in Najafs Old City quarter, which was accommodating Iranian pilgrims. A Farsi report by the IRIB News Agency quoted an official with Irans Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization ...

IRNA The report on smoke inhalation of a large number of Iranian pilgrims in Iraqi city of Najaf is not correct, an informed source said on Tuesday. Following some reports on local Iraqi media on Tuesday that 43 Iranian pilgrims suffered from effects of smoke inhalation in a fire at a hotel in the Iraqi holy city of Najaf, an informed source from ...

Press TV- As many as 37 of the Iranian martyrs of a massive bombing, which targeted pilgrims near the Iraqi capital of Baghdad earlier in the month, have been laid to rest following a funeral procession in southern Iran. On November 24, explosives laden onto a truck were set off at a gas station in the Shomali village in the suburbs of the city ...

IRNA - A senior Iranian cleric expressed condolences over the martyrdom of eight Iranian pilgrims in the terrorist blast in the Iraqi holy city of Samara here on Monday. In a message, the representative of Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei for Hajj and pilgrimage affairs Hojjatoleslam Seyyed Ali Qazi-Askar also ...

IRNA One more Iranian victim of Samara Sunday blast has succumbed to his injuries and the number of Iranian pilgrims killed in the terrorist attack has risen to eight, said an official. The official added that necessary preparations have already been made to transfer the bodies of the incidents martyrs to Iran. Spokesman for the headquarters in ...

MNA Head of Iran's Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization Saeed Ohadi touched upon Sunday suicide bombings in Iraqi cities of Samarra and Tikrit, which killed at least 21 people, including 7 Iranian pilgrims. Ohadi said ISIL agents after heavy losses in Mosul, committed a heinous crime in Samarra on Sunday morning launching two suicide bombings, of ...

IRNA Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi on Sunday said that the Ministry and Iran's Embassy in Baghdad are firmly following up the case of the Iranian pilgrims who were wounded in Samara terrorist attacks this morning. Two Iranian women and five men were killed Sunday morning when two suicide bombers blown up themselves in a parking lot in ...

Reuters- Ten Iranian pilgrims were killed in a suicide attack in Iraq's holy city of Samarra, about 125 km (80 miles) north of Baghdad on Sunday, the Iranian news agency ISNA quoted an Iranian official as saying. Pilgrimage official Mohammad Javad Daneshyar said the Iranians were getting off a bus when an ambulance carrying the suicide bomber approached ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) The number of Iranians going on pilgrimage to Iraqs holy cities during the current Iranian year (which started March 20) is planned to reach 1.5 million a senior official at Irans Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization announced. Speaking to the Tasnim News Agency, Mohsen Nezafati said the Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization dispatched ...

Baghdad, June 16, IRNA Head of Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization Saeed Ohadi said on Thursday that the number of Iranian pilgrims of religious sites in Iraq is expected to double this year after a cancelation of Hajj for Iranians due to Saudi sabotage. Ohadi, who is visiting Baghdad, made the remark in a press conference in the Iranian embassy in ...

Abadan, Nov 26, IRNA Minister of Health Hassan Hashemi said on Thursday that there is no need for concern about health conditions of Iranian pilgrims visiting Iraq, saying everything is under control. Hashemi made the remarks during a visit to Shalamche International Border to examine the process of rendering services to Iranian pilgrims. Rendering ...

[caption id="attachment_151084" align="alignright" width="179"] Head of Iran's Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization Saeed Ohadi[/caption] TEHRAN (Tasnim) Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei has issued an order calling for efforts to satisfy the needs of people who go on pilgrimage to the holy cities of neighboring Iraq,...

Tehran, Dec 15, IRNA - Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani on Monday hailed security of the Arbaeen mourning ceremony in Iraq. In a message to Iraqi Prime Minister Heydar al-Ebadi, he congratulated the Iraqi government, armed forces and the volunteers' ability to guarantee security of the Arbaeen mourning ceremony. Shamkhani ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) An Iranian deputy minister said a high level of security prevails along the countrys joint borders with neighboring Iraq as some 1.5 million Iranian pilgrims have been returning home after attending religious ceremonies in Karbala. There has been no security problem along the borders, neither inside Iran nor Iraq, Iran's deputy ...

Tehran, Dec 15, IRNA Despite the entire efforts made by various concerned Iranian officials and especially the allocated facilities, the Iranian pilgrims of Imam Hussain (P) on his 40th day after martyrdom anniversary (Arbain) are entangled with numerous problems. The Head of the Iranian Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization Saeid Owhadi told IRNA here ...

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The number of Iranian pilgrims visiting the Iraqi city of Karbala this year has hit a record high of 1,500,000. Iranian police has issued a record number of 500,000 new passports for pilgrims travelling to Iraq to mark Arbaeen, said Hossein Zolfaghari, who serves as Iran's deputy interior minister for security and law enforcement. Millions of ...

Thousands of Iranian pilgrims are crossing Mehran border to enter Iraq's territory for attending Arbaeen in the holy city of Karbala.   By Tasnim News Agency   The Iran Project is not responsible for the content of quoted ...