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Source: Inequality in blood money. |
Iran to Send Pilgrims to Hajj If Saudis Pay Blood Money (Diya): Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance. (IFP).
In his first press conference, Reza
Salehi Amiri, the Iranian Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance,
explained Iran’s conditions to resume sending pilgrims to Saudi Arabia.
“The Islamic Republic’s official policy
is to ensure that the dignity and security of its pilgrims is guaranteed
in Hajj pilgrimage,” he noted, according to a report by IFP.
Therefore, he added, if Saudi Arabian
government accepts our minimum conditions and pay the blood money of
Mina martyrs, Iran will send its pilgrims to Hajj this year.
Iran has received an invitation from
Saudi Arabia for talks on the 2017 Hajj pilgrimage, and an Iranian
delegation is slated to travel to Saudi Arabia on February 23 for talks.
More than 1.8 million faithful took part
in last year’s Hajj, but Iranians stayed at home after tensions between
Riyadh and Tehran boiled over following a deadly crush of people during
the 2015 pilgrimage.
On September 24, 2015, thousands of
people lost their lives in the crush after Saudi authorities blocked a
road in Mina during a ritual, forcing large crowds of pilgrims to
collide.
The crush was the deadliest incident in
the history of the pilgrimage. Saudi Arabia claims nearly 770 people
were killed in the incident, but officials at Iran’s Hajj and Pilgrimage
Organization say about 7,000 people, including over 460 Iranian
pilgrims, lost their lives.
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Rates of blood money in Saudi Arabia. Notice no mention of Jews. |
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