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Iran's president uses UN speech to call for investigation into hajj stampede
Source: The Guardian and agencies
Iran's president uses UN speech to call for investigation into hajj stampede
Staff and agencies at the United Nations
Saturday 26 September 2015 17.40 BST
Iranian president Hassan Rouhani used a major United Nations speech on Saturday to demand an investigation into a crush that killed more than 750 people at the hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia.
His remarks came after Saudi Arabia’s most senior cleric, the grand mufti, appeared to absolve the authorities of blame for the stampede at Mecca.
“You are not responsible for what happened,” grand mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin-Abdullah al-Sheikh was quoted by the official Saudi press agency, SPA, as telling the interior minister, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef.
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The fact that Rouhani used a UN summit meeting on global development goals to reiterate his country’s outrage was a sign that it does not intend to tone down criticism of its regional rival Saudi Arabia. Both Iran and the Saudis see themselves as leaders in the Muslim world.
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Staff and agencies at the United Nations
Saturday 26 September 2015 17.40 BST
Iranian president Hassan Rouhani used a major United Nations speech on Saturday to demand an investigation into a crush that killed more than 750 people at the hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia.
His remarks came after Saudi Arabia’s most senior cleric, the grand mufti, appeared to absolve the authorities of blame for the stampede at Mecca.
“You are not responsible for what happened,” grand mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin-Abdullah al-Sheikh was quoted by the official Saudi press agency, SPA, as telling the interior minister, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef.
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The fact that Rouhani used a UN summit meeting on global development goals to reiterate his country’s outrage was a sign that it does not intend to tone down criticism of its regional rival Saudi Arabia. Both Iran and the Saudis see themselves as leaders in the Muslim world.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/26/hajj-stampede-mecca-iran-president-hassan-rouhani-un-speech
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