And the tension between both Islamic countries continues. Iran on Thursday banned imports from Saudi Arabia and forbid Iranian citizens from making the annual trip to Mecca. All Muslims financially and physically capable of doing so are required at make a pilgrimage to Islam's holiest city at least once in a lifetime. The ban comes after nearly a week of tension week between the two rivals that started when Saudi Arabia executed 47 people, including prominent Iranian cleric Sheik Nimr al-Nimr. Saudi Arabia is a predominantly Sunni country, while Iran is the largest of the few predominantly Shiite countries in the world. In the subsequent days, the two countries severed diplomatic relations, Iranian protestors attacked and set fire to the Saudi embassy in Tehran, and on Thursday Iran accused the Saudis of targeting its embassy in Yemen during an airstrike. The last time Iran stopped its citizens from making the hajj was in 1987, after 400 mostly Iranian pilgrims were killed by Saudi riot police.
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Posted: at 8-01-2016 10:51 AM (8 years ago) | Addicted Hero
youngrashy at 8-01-2016 11:25 AM (8 years ago) (m)
What's going on with this so called religious countries?
Posted: at 8-01-2016 11:25 AM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac
DAMILARE100 at 9-01-2016 08:45 AM (8 years ago) (m)
Quote from: KAMAL BANKOLE on 8-01-2016 12:42 PM
THEY SHOULD SETTLE THIS AMICABLY
............ It needs not be settled. Eyes are opening. God can be served anywhere anytime. The whole world contribute to economy of Saudi and Israel all in the name of pilgrimage
Posted: at 9-01-2016 08:45 AM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac