TEHRAN – A passenger aircraft that Iran Air has leased from a Nigerian airline landed in Tehran on Saturday to carry Iranian pilgrims visiting Saudi Arabia to perform Hajj rituals.

The Boeing 747-400 airliner landed at Tehran’s Mehrabad Airport on Saturday, Tasnim news agency quoted a source as saying.

The Iranian Leader's Representative in Hajj Affairs, Seyyed Ali Qazi Askar recently announced that Iran Air will operate three fourth of this year’s Hajj flights from different cities in Iran to Saudi Arabia.  

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