Iran will never forget Mina tragedy: Ayatollah Movahedi Kermani

Tehran's interim Friday Prayer Leader Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Movahedi Kermani during the sermon in Tehran said that the Islamic Republic will never forget the "heart-rending and disgraceful” crush that took place during last year’s Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia.

During the Hajj rituals, Muslim nations must identify their enemy and its plots as well as factors that would cause strife among them, Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Movahedi Kermani said, Press TV reported

He expressed deep regret that the Wahhabi regime of Saudi Arabia calls itself the custodian of Islam's holiest shrines.

Wahhabism, the radical ideology dominating Saudi Arabia and freely espoused by the country’s clerics, is directly responsible for the rise of such terror networks as the Daesh Takfiri group wreaking havoc in several countries, mainly Iraq and Syria. Takfirism, or the practice of accusing others of being "infidels", is a characteristic of Wahhabism. The Riyadh regime also provides widely-reported support for Daesh.     

Movahedi Kermani said the Saudi rulers, whom he described as "US poppets", have conspired to prevent Muslims from enjoying security beside the Kaaba in the holy city of Mecca.

Instead of establishing security in Saudi Arabia, the country’s rulers kill pilgrims, he added.

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