(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - During the ceremony, the pilgrims condemned recent insults to the holy Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) in the West.
The pilgrims chanted anti-US and anti-Zionist slogans during the ceremony also attended by the Supreme Leader's representative for Hajj affairs, Hojatoleslam Ali Qazi-Asgar.
'God is the Greatest', 'Death to Israel', and 'Death to America', were among slogans
chanted by the pilgrims.
Every year on the 9th of the lunar month of Dhu al-Hijjah (this year October 25) Iranians and other Hajj pilgrims attend the disavowal of pagans ceremony to condemn the anti-Islam approach of arrogant powers, especially that of the US.
The faithful - men clad in two-piece seamless white shrouds and women all covered except for their hands and faces to symbolize equality -- converge on Arafat.
A message by Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei for the Hajj pilgrims was also read by Qazi-Asgar during the ceremony.
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