Posted on 09/28/2015 12:06:10 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Saudi Arabia firmly rejected Iran’s criticism of its handling of the Haj pilgrimage Saturday after Tehran demanded an inquiry into the Mina stampede.
“I believe the Iranians should know better than to play politics with a tragedy that has befallen people who were performing their most sacred religious duty,” Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir said, according to AFP.
Al-Jubeir, delivering remarks along US Secretary of State John Kerry, insisted that Saudi Arabia was on top of the situation.
“The Kingdom has had a long history of spending tremendous resources to care for the pilgrimage to ensure that the pilgrims who come there have a successful pilgrimage,” he said.
“And we will reveal the facts when they emerge. And we will not hold anything back. If mistakes were made, who made them will be held accountable,” Al-Jubeir said.
“And we will make sure that we will learn from this and we will make sure that it doesn’t happen again. I want to repeat again this is not a situation with which to play politics.
“I would hope Iranian leaders would be more sensible and more thoughtful with regards to those who perished in this tragedy, and wait until we see the results of the investigation.”
Meanwhile, French President Francois Hollande told Iranian President Hassan Rouhani that the Haj tragedy should not increase tension between Saudi Arabia and Iran, Reuters said quoting a diplomatic source.
Prominent Iranian writer and academic Sadegh Zibakalam criticized statements made by Iranian officials on the Mina incident saying that they stemmed from events in Syria and Yemen.
“As opposed to other Muslims, ours were the only reactions aimed at pre-judging who is responsible for the Mina tragedy,” he was quoted by Al Arabiya.net as saying.
“The response (from Iranian officials) was based on unleashing anti-Arab sentiment that many Iranians bear. The horrible Mina incident has allowed Iranians to unload their anger onto Arabs,” he added.
“If mistakes were made, who made them will be held accountable,”
Thousands and thousands of low IQ savages going nuts. What could go wrong?
1) Destroy Israel
2) Destroy or topple the House of Saud and take over Mecca and Medina.
Russia is now advancing it's plans to have a huge presence in Syria in order to pave the way for Hizbollah.
Iran is building it's bombs.
Europe flooded with Jihadi fighters.
America out to lunch.
Jordan, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and others secretly forming an alliance to knock out Iran because America is totally unreliable under Obama.
WE are approaching some turbulent times.
Hopefully, when we once again have some adult leadership in Washington, maybe we won't be so unreliable anymore. I hope it isn't just a woman's turn to be elected. It would be Obama's third term, even if they don't even like each other.
Muslims can’t prevent a stampede but they can build bombs. Guess their minds are too focused on death...
You hear about one of these stampedes every year. It’s just an example of arabs being arabs. I hardly see why it is news.
Prominent Iranian writer and academic Sadegh Zibakalam criticized statements made by Iranian officials on the Mina incident saying that they stemmed from events in Syria and Yemen. "As opposed to other Muslims, ours were the only reactions aimed at pre-judging who is responsible for the Mina tragedy,"he was quoted by Al Arabiya.net as saying. "The response (from Iranian officials) was based on unleashing anti-Arab sentiment that many Iranians bear. The horrible Mina incident has allowed Iranians to unload their anger onto Arabs," he added.The problem is Islam -- Islam must be destroyed.
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