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Iranians protest exclusion from hajj

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The head of Iran's Hajj Organisation and Pilgrimage Organisation, Said Ohadi, gives an interview to AFP on September 9, 2016 in Tehran. With Iranians barred from the annual hajj pilgrimage, thousands protested in Tehran on Friday and officials criticised Saudi Arabia's refusal to discuss last year's deadly stampede. Around 64,000 Iranians allocated places for the hajj under a quota system will be absent when it starts on Saturday, after talks between the increasingly bitter rivals fell apart earlier this year. / AFP PHOTO / STRINGER

With Iranians barred from the annual hajj pilgrimage, thousands protested in Tehran on Friday and officials criticised Saudi Arabia's refusal to discuss last year's deadly stampede.