Iranian President Hassan Rouhani will fly home early from New York to attend a repatriation ceremony in Tehran on Tuesday for
Iranian pilgrims killed in the stampede at the hajj, his office said, according to AFP.
A total of 169 Iranians are now known to have died in Thursday's stampede in Mina, outside Mecca, and the bodies of 130 of them will be flown home on Tuesday, state media reported.