1.   Many Iranian pilgrims visit Shiite sites in Syria and Iraq.

2.   Now they are more like shrines visited by pilgrims.

3.   Balsara told a news conference Monday that the hotels will be known as Dadi Howard Johnson and would mostly be built in small towns visited by pilgrims.

4.   In Baghdad, a tourism official confirmed that the two countries have reached an agreement to allow Iranian pilgrims to visit Iraqi holy sites.

5.   Iran has dismissed an Iraqi offer to allow Iranian pilgrims to visit Shiite Muslim shrines on its territory.

6.   Meanwhile in Baghdad, a tourism official confirmed that the two countries have reached an agreement to allow Iranian pilgrims to visit holy sites in Iraq.

7.   Nigerian pilgrims may once again visit Israel following the lifting of a ban imposed after hundreds of Nigerians went there on religious journeys and never left.

8.   Other pilgrims visit all year round for off-season pilgrimage.

9.   Then pilgrims visit priests and priestesses for guidance.

10.   He also hoped the two countries would soon have an agreement for Iranian pilgrims to visit Shiite Moslem sites in Iraq.