Seyed Mohammad Hosseini, who was speaking in a meeting to address the legal aspects of Mina incident held in Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, University of Tehran on Saturday morning, however did not rule out the possibility that such a proof would be found; “Iran and Saudi Arabia have had tense relations since the Islamic Revolution of 1979 for obvious reasons, escalating in clear hostility recently; given the international conditions, the US mounted pressures on the kingdom to bring the young generation of rulers of Saudi family on top of the political hierarchy, since they had been quite attractive for the US,” Hosseini told the meeting.
Hosseini, who is adviser to Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Deputy-FM for Arab and African Affairs, said that the priority during the early years of Mina incident had been to “prevent the rise in the number of victims.” “Within last two weeks, we summoned Saudi charge d’affaires to Foreign Ministry, which is unprecedented in the history of summoning foreign envoys; our first concerns were that Saudi Arabia did not provide precise figures on the victims of Mina incident, on which our efforts focused, to give the exact numbers to the nation,” he asserted.
Hosseini emphasized that ‘memorial offices’ in all Iranian embassies for the Mina incident worked effectively in eliciting a reaction from Saudi officials, which had been merely transfer of the killed pilgrims’ corpses to Iran.
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