AhlulBayt News Agency: An official dismissed reports about Iranian pilgrims being stranded in Syria after the collapse of the government in the Arab country.
Head of the Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization Ali Reza Bayat said there are no Iranian pilgrims in Syria.
He said that given the security situation in Syria, Iran has dispatched no pilgrims to the Arab country in recent months.
So there is no cause for concern in this regard, he went on to say.
Earlier, some reports in social media suggested that a number of Iranian pilgrims have been stranded in Syria after the fall of President Bashar al-Assad’s government and the capture of the capital Damascus by armed opposition groups.
A large number of Iranians travel to Syria annually to visit the holy shrine of Hazrat Zeynab (SA) in the suburbs of Damascus.
On Sunday, militants, headed by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), declared a curfew in Damascus until the following morning, after seizing the capital following a lightning offensive launched last week.
Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, the HTS commander, said Sunday that Syrian state institutions would be supervised by Prime Minister Mohammad Ghazi al-Jalali until a transition of power takes place.
The HTS said it would work with the prime minister and called on Syrian military forces in Damascus to stay away from public institutions.
Assad reportedly departed Syria on an airplane earlier in the day, bringing an end to more than five decades of his family’s rule over Syria.
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Head of the Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization Ali Reza Bayat said there are no Iranian pilgrims in Syria.
He said that given the security situation in Syria, Iran has dispatched no pilgrims to the Arab country in recent months.
So there is no cause for concern in this regard, he went on to say.
Earlier, some reports in social media suggested that a number of Iranian pilgrims have been stranded in Syria after the fall of President Bashar al-Assad’s government and the capture of the capital Damascus by armed opposition groups.
A large number of Iranians travel to Syria annually to visit the holy shrine of Hazrat Zeynab (SA) in the suburbs of Damascus.
On Sunday, militants, headed by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), declared a curfew in Damascus until the following morning, after seizing the capital following a lightning offensive launched last week.
Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, the HTS commander, said Sunday that Syrian state institutions would be supervised by Prime Minister Mohammad Ghazi al-Jalali until a transition of power takes place.
The HTS said it would work with the prime minister and called on Syrian military forces in Damascus to stay away from public institutions.
Assad reportedly departed Syria on an airplane earlier in the day, bringing an end to more than five decades of his family’s rule over Syria.
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