BAKU, Azerbaijan, May 28. Saudi Arabia has
suspended the process of issuing visas to thousands of Iranian
citizens preparing to go on the Hajj pilgrimage, Mohammad Hossein
Ranjbaran, an adviser to Iran’s Foreign Minister, wrote on X,
Trend reports.
According to him, the reason for this was that an Iranian cleric
made insulting statements against the officials of this country in
Saudi Arabia and spread them on social networks. As a result, the
cleric was detained in Saudi Arabia.
Ranjbaran stated that, while officials of the Iranian Hajj and
Pilgrimage Organization reminded more than 85,000 Iranian pilgrims
before and during the Hajj pilgrimage to respect the rules of the
host country, there is a possibility that thousands of Iranians
will be deprived of the pilgrimage.
A few days ago, Iranian cleric Gholamreza Ghasemian recorded a
video clip in the city of Medina, Saudi Arabia, containing
insulting statements against this country and its officials and
shared it on social networks. This resulted in his detention in
Saudi Arabia.
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