TEHRAN, May 27 (Xinhua) -- Iran will send as many as 86,500 Iranian pilgrims to annual Hajj ceremony in Saudi Arabia this summer, Tasnim news agency quoted an Iranian official as saying on Saturday.
The Iranian pilgrims will travel to Saudi Arabia in 600 convoys, Head of Iran's Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization Hamid Mohammadi announced.
All the Iranian pilgrims will be kitted up with electronic bracelets that would work as ID cards and will contain their personal information, Mohammadi said.
The device is paired with a mobile application, helping the pilgrims to find their convoys in case of getting lost, he said.
Over the past year, Iran was in talks with Saudi officials to resolve the issues which had hampered the dispatch of pilgrims to the annual Muslim ceremonies in the Saudi Arabian city of Mecca.
Iran decided to withdraw from sending the pilgrims to the Hajj season last year, in which it cited the reason for fearing the safety of its pilgrims after the deadly stampede in Hajj of 2015.
More than 450 Iranians were among 2,300 pilgrims who died in stampede in Mina area.
