‘464 Iran pilgrims’ died in Saudi Arabia Hajj disaster

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Iran’s death toll from the Saudi hajj disaster has nearly doubled to 464 pilgrims killed&comma; state media reported today&comma; a development that is likely to further strain ties between the Middle East arch-rivals&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It was not immediately clear how the rise in the Islamic Republic’s death toll&comma; announced on the website of Iranian state television&comma; would affect the overall toll from the September 24 disaster near Islam’s holy city of Mecca&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Saudi Arabia’s Health Ministry reported on Saturday that the crush and stampede killed at least 769 pilgrims and injured 934&comma; but Pakistan&comma; India&comma; Indonesia and Iran all have suggested the true casualty figures may be higher&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Saudi state media and officials had no immediate comment on the Iranian announcement&comma; though they say they are investigating what caused the crush and stampede in Mina&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The disaster has fed into the bitter regional rivalry between the Sunni Saudi Arabia and the Shiite Iran&comma; which back opposite sides in the wars in Syria and Yemen&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>On Wednesday&comma; Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned of &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;harsh” measures if the kingdom failed to promptly repatriate the bodies of the Islamic Republic’s dead&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The Saudi government is not carrying out its obligation to repatriate and in some cases shows slyness&comma;” Mr Khamenei told military commanders in northern Iran in comments broadcast on state TV&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The Islamic Republic of Iran has so far showed self-restraint&comma; observed Islamic decency and brotherly respect in the Islamic world&comma; but they should know that Iran’s hand is superior to many others and has more capabilities&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;If &lpar;Iran&rpar; wants to react to disturbing and sinister elements&comma; their situation will not be good&comma;” Mr Khamenei added&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Iran has led a chorus of international criticism directed at Saudi Arabia’s response to the incident&comma; saying its diplomats were not given access to victims until days after the stampede&period; That is a criticism also levied by Indonesia&comma; the Muslim world’s most populous country&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Iranians have staged daily protests near the Saudi Embassy in Tehran&comma; and President Hassan Rouhani devoted a significant part of his speech at the UN General Assembly on Monday to blaming Saudi authorities for the disaster and demanding it be &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;fully investigated”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Indonesia&comma; Pakistan and India all have said their diplomats received some 1&comma;100 pictures of the dead in the hajj disaster&comma; suggesting a higher death toll than what Saudi officials have announced&period; Saudi Arabia said Tuesday that the photos are of those who died during the entire pilgrimage and not just at the disaster just outside Mecca&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The accusations of mismanagement of the pilgrimage strike at a key pillar of the Saudi royal family’s prestige&comma; with King Salman holding the title of the &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;custodian of the two holy mosques”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed2e58352d1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; function &lpar;&rpar; 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