Pilgrims
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Indian pilgrims stranded in Iran go back home
TEHRAN, May 17 (MNA) – A group of Indian passengers stranded in Iran due to the cancelation of flights as a precautionary measure against the Covid-19 outbreak, returned home on a flight from Tehran to New Delhi on Saturday.
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Bahraini pilgrims stranded in Iran to go back home
TEHRAN, Apr. 14 (MNA) – Bahrain’s Gulf Air has made its first flight to Iran on April 14 to return home Bahraini passengers stranded in Iran due to the suspension of flights amid the outbreak of novel coronavirus.
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By: Salman Parviz
Repatriation of Indian pilgrims, students in Qom ongoing
TEHRAN, Apr. 10 (MNA) – This is the story of more than 1,200 Indian pilgrims and seminary students stranded in the holy city of Qom during the Nowruz holidays amid Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.
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Over 800 Indian pilgrims stranded in Iran to go back home
TEHRAN, Apr. 02 (MNA) – Indian Supreme Court has decided to bring back more than 800 Indian pilgrims stuck in Iran amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to local reports.
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By: Mohsen Noferesti
Mawkib in S Khorasan welcomes Pakistani pilgrims
BIRJAND, Nov. 02 (MNA) – Mawkibs (voluntarily prepared stations providing pilgrims with free food and place to rest) in South Khorasan province welcome Pakistani pilgrims who return home after attending mourning ceremonies of the 8th Shia Imam, Imam Reza (PBUH), in Mashhad.
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Pak Gov. to apply new policy for easing country’s pilgrims’ commute to Iran
TEHRAN, Jul. 27 (MNA) – Ministry of Religious Affairs and Inter-faith Harmony of Pakistan is to apply a new policy to facilitate commute of the country’s pilgrim to Iran and then to Iraq and Syria before October, 2019, i.e. the beginning of Muslim calendar months of Safar and Muharrem.
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Terrorists target Iranian pilgrims’ bus in Iraq
TEHRAN, Feb. 04 (MNA) – A bus carrying Iranian pilgrims in the south of Iraq’s Saladin governorate was targeted by terrorists, martyring one and wounding eight others.
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Top Bahraini Shia cleric arrives in Iran’s Mashhad city Sat.
TEHRAN, Feb. 02 (MNA) – Bahrain’s most prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Issa Qassim has traveled to Iranian holy city of Mashhad after visiting the Iraqi holy city of Najaf.
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By: Mehdi Hosseinnejadi
Iranian border guards welcome foreign Arbaeen pilgrims
TEHRAN, Oct. 22 (MNA) – The Iranian border guards on the shared northern border with Azerbaijan Republic welcomed caravans of Arbaeen pilgrims who intended to cross Iran to reach the Iraqi holy city of Karbala to attend the anniversary of Arbaeen pilgrimage.
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Iran, Pakistan to run joint railway line
TEHRAN, Jan. 20 (MNA) – Iran and Pakistan have reached an agreement to cooperate on tourism industry through building a railway system between the two countries.