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Iran announced on Wednesday that Saudi Arabia has expelled six state media journalists after they were detained for nearly a week, in the run up to the Hajj pilgrimage. According to Iranian state TV, the journalists were detained while in Medina. No further details were given about what sparked their detention, but they said they were questioned for several hours before they were taken to a detention centre. Saudi Arabia’s Centre for International Communication told the Associated Press the men had been working in violation of the visas they received, which only allowed them to perform Hajj, n…

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