Why is Iran strengthening the economic and cultural power of its Hajj apparatus?

Hajj Iran’s exclusive reporting indicates that bodies connected to Hajj and religious endowments played an active role in securing the transfer of the Quranic Culture Development Council to the Islamic Propaganda Organization. The decision appears to go beyond administrative restructuring by concentrating religious education, cultural resources and ideological messaging within a more centralised network. By expanding this apparatus, the Islamic Republic can exert greater influence over pilgrims, clerics and Hajj personnel while using pilgrimage programmes as channels for political loyalty and ideological training.

— Hajj Iran

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