AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): Iran resumed religious pilgrim trips to Syria on Sunday, enabling its nationals to visit Muslim Shia shrines in Damascus, according to state-run Fars news agency.
Two weekly flights from Tehran International Airport to Damascus resumed, allowing Iranians to visit the shrines of Sayyida Zainab and Sayyida Ruqayya - the head of Iran's Hajj and Pilgrimage Organisation Ali-Reza Rashidian said.
"The Hajj and Pilgramage Organisation has allocated two weekly flights to Damascus from Tehran International Airport to visit the shrines of Sayyida Zainab and Sayyida Ruqayya," reported.
The first batch of 25 tourists headed from Shia-majority Iran to Syria's historic capital on Sunday as part of an "implementation of agreements previously concluded" with the Syrian government, according to the agency.
Iran and Syria agreed to resume religious pilgrim tours last November when it was agreed that Tehran would send 100,000 Iranian tourists in the first phase of the deal.
At the time, Syrian Minister of Tourism Muhammad Rami Martini expressed his desire to "conduct the trips quickly" as his ministry encourages "Syrian tourism offices to receive Iranian tourists".
Pilgrimages partially resumed in 2019 but were put to a stop after the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic.
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source : New Arab
Monday
17 January 2022
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Iran resumes Muslim Shia pilgrim tours to shrines of Sayyida Zainab, Ruqayya in Syria
Iran resumed religious pilgrim trips to Syria on Sunday, enabling its nationals to visit Muslim Shia shrines in Damascus, according to state-run Fars news agency.