Tehran, IRNA – Head of Iran’s Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization Hamidreza Mohammadi announced the reopening of the Karbala ground road without obtaining a travel visa for Iranian pilgrims.
Confirming the obtained permits to send 2,500 people on a daily trip to Iraq, Mohammadi said that due to the facilities and infrastructure available at the moment, the traffic of pilgrims of the Shiite holy shrines in Iraq through the two borders of Shalamcheh and Mehran is possible.
He added that 75 percent of the trips will be through the Mehran border and 25 percent through the Shalamcheh border.
The ground road to the Shiite holy shrines in Iraq had been closed for the past two years due to the prevention of COVID-19 outspread between Iran and Iraq.
Source: Islamic Republic News Agency – IRNA
