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Prosecutor-General to lead 1,10,000 Iranian pilgrims
TEHERAN Apr 27: Irans supreme leader Ayatollah All Khamenei on Friday named the country's Prosecutor General to lead 110,000 Iranians on the annual HaJ pilgrimage to Mecca. Reuter reports from Tehran.
The decree appointing Mohammad Monarpmadi Reyshahri. a former Minister of Intelligence in charge of Internal security, was announced on Teheran Radio
A hardline newspaper sug-Csted Saudi pressure had reed the resignation of Khamenei s first choice for the Job Ahmad Khomeini, son of Iraq • late supreme leader Ayatollah Ruholfah Khomeini.
Iranians will take part in the June pilgrimage after Teheran and Riyadh last month healed a rift caused in part by bloodshed tn the holy city of Mecca during the 1987 HaJ more than 400 people, mostly Iranians were killed tn clashes with Saud! Security forces during an Iranian led demonstration.
Foreign Minister All Akbar Velayati to visiting Saudi Arabia. His discussion include arrangements for Iranian partlc
tpatton tn HaJ for the first time tn four years.
Hard liners opposed to President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani criticised the resumption of ties with Saudi Arabia denounced by Iran for inviting US troops to defend it after Iraq seized Kuwait last Autist
The recently launched
Saudi Arabia's King Fahad had sent a special envoy to Teheran to deliver a strong protest at Khomeini's ap-
Khomeinl resigned on April 15. saying his mother was ill. Khamenei had named him nine days earlier to replace Mehdi Karrubi. the Parliamentary Speaker who headed Iranian pilgrims In the 1987 HaJ
Khomeini often voices hardline views, on Monday, echoing his father's militant anti-western line, he said Iraq could never contemplate restoring ties with the United States.
Iran's Insistence on the right to hold anti-western demonstrations during HaJ.
It, was one of the reasons for Iran s three year boycott of the ritual, obLlgatory for all able
Under an agreement reached last month. Iranians would be able to hold their own meetings in designated areas away from other pil-grims
The deal sets the muhber of *~toaa pilgrim. at 110,000. compared with the 150.000 Teheran wanted to send and the 45.000 the Saudi, said they were willing to accept