Huge crowds of mourners streamed into the streets of Tehran to pay their final respects to Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei led mass prayers for the body of Ayatollah Rafsanjani, a former Iranian president and chairman of the Expediency Council, who ...
Iran said Tuesday it had finally received an official invitation from Saudi Arabia for its pilgrims to attend this year’s hajj. The representative of Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei for Hajj, Sayyed Ali Ghazi Askar, said on Monday that Iran had “officially received Saudi Arabia’s invitation to ...