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The Iranian pilgram riot arose from escalating tensions between ShiiteIran and SunniSaudi Arabia. For years, Iranian pilgrims tried to stage political demonstrations in the Muslim holy city of Mecca during the hajj. On July 31, 1987, Iranian pilgrims tried to stage another political demostration but riot police broke it up with force. This resulted in 402 people killed (275 Iranians and 85 Saudi policemen) and 650 wounded. The Saudi government blamed the riot on the Iranian pilgrims and claimed that the Iranian pilgram riot was part of a plot to destabilize the Saudi regime. When news of the riot and deaths reached Iran the next day, Iranian government-organized mobs attacked the embassies of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia in Tehran, resulting in the death of a diplomat. The following day, over a million Iranians gathered in Tehran calling for the overthrow of the shaikh of Saudi Arabia.
The Iranian Prophet Zoroaster is considered by numerous scholars as the founder of the earliest religion based on revealed scripture.
However, the Iranian languages and their various dialects (totaling an estimarted 150-200 million speakers) exceed the Iranian borders and are spoken throughout western China, southern Russia, and eastern Turkey.
According to the Iranian Constitution, the government is required to provide every citizen of the country with access to social security that covers retirement, unemployment, old age, disability, accidents, calamities, health and medical treatment and care services.
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