Saudi risks fallout with coronavirus curbs on holy sites
5 March 2020
As featured in Daily Mail
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"Saudi Arabia is trying to project itself as more responsible than Iran," Umar Karim, a visiting fellow at the Royal United Services Institute in London, told AFP. "But there is apprehension that its decision could reignite the political debate in the Muslim world about whether it should be the sole authority on the hajj and the two holy cities."