Iran's government said it had forbidden imports from Saudi Arabia after a Cabinet meeting chaired by President Hassan Rouhani on Thursday morning, according to state news agency IRNA. The Cabinet also reaffirmed a ban on Umrah pilgrimages to Mecca - which are both lucrative for Saudi Arabia and important to Muslims - first imposed in April in response to an alleged sexual assault on two male Iranians by Saudi airport guards. Trade between Saudi Arabia and Iran is small compared with the size of their economies, but tens of thousands of Iranians travel to the Kingdom every year to complete the hajj, as well as Umrah pilgrimages made outside of hajj season. (Reuters)