Hajj and Umrah Director: This Year's Hajj Operation Ends at Midnight on Saturday
Hajj operations manager and head of Mecca headquarters in Hajj 1403 announced that this year's Hajj operations will end at midnight on Saturday (Tir 23), and said, All pilgrims and agents of our country will return to the Islamic homeland from Saudi Arabia.
Gholamreza Rezaei, who was talking to the Hajj information site, added that out of 87,650 pilgrims and Iranian caravan agents, more than 79,000 people have left Saudi Arabia, and the two cities of Medina and Mecca will be empty of Iranian pilgrims by the end of Saturday, July 23.
Hajj 1403 operations manager added that the last flight of pilgrims' convoys from Saudi Arabia will be made to Yazd province.
The Hajj and Umrah Deputy Director of the Hajj Organization while referring to the measures taken for food variety with the aim of making the pilgrims more satisfied in this year's Hajj, continued that so far, breakfast, lunch and hot dinner in Medina a sum of 1,175,418 and in Mecca a total of 5,881,694 meals have been cooked and distributed, and providing food services to the pilgrims will continue until the last meal.
Referring to the contract concluded in the intra-city services department, he said that so far, 4,859 buses have been provided to the intra-city transportation network for pilgrims of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Mecca.
The Director of Hajj 1403 operations mentioned the use of 1925 and 1919 buses by 623 caravans for the first circumambulation and visiting the shrines among other services provided in this section to Iranian pilgrims and added, "More than 100 buses are also used in some cultural and executive programs and Visits and... have been used. Also, all 87,650 pilgrims, agents and servants of Dhiufur Rahman used the Haramin express train service on the way from Medina to Mecca and vice versa, which resulted in the satisfaction of the pilgrims."
In the other part of this conversation, the head of Mecca headquarters pointed out that 650 buses were used to transport pilgrims from Mecca to Masha'er and from Masha'er to Mecca after the end of Tashriq days, and said: "To transport pilgrims from Mecca to Mena for the day of Troyeh and From Mecca to Arafat, 1,950 trips were made in the first leg, and in the return and departure from Mena, there were over 1,100 bus trips on the night and day of the 12th of Dhul-Hijjah.
He said that from the evening of the 9th to one o'clock in the morning on the day of Eid al-Adha, about 300 buses transported the pilgrims of the Islamic Republic of Iran with 1800 trips from Arafat to Masha'er al-Haram and Mena.
