Iranian citizens are pretty isolated from their country’s main global enemies, the United States and Israel. But they are much less cut off from Iran’s regional rival Saudi Arabia, because Saudi Arabia is home to Islam’s holiest sites. About 100,000 Iranians visit Saudi Arabia every year for the annual hajj pilgrimage, and about 500,000 make the trip for the umrah, or “lesser pilgrimage,” to Mecca.
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