The news of Molavi Abdolhamid’s meeting with Dr. Hassan Rohani was one of the most delightful pieces of news from last week, simply because for years our Shia and Sunni compatriots have suffered from disunion and separation. The geographical isolation of our Sunni compatriots has, over many years, led to their isolation from management […]
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Political Participation and Religious Freedom, Immediate Demands
Interview with Zahedan’s Friday Prayer Leader, Molavi AbdolhamidZahedan’s Friday prayer leader and the leader of the Sistan and Baluchistan province’s Sunni community, Molavi Abdolhamid, describes the Sunni community’s demands from the new administration in an interview with Rooz. Reports recently released by social media networks indicated that Hassan Rohani received the highest margin of […]
Sunni leader cites bias in prayer grounds delay
Mowlana Abdolhamid, the Friday Imam of the Sunni community in in Zahedan, has spoken out against what he calls unconscionable delays by provincial officials in building Sunni prayer grounds. Sunni-on-line reports that Zahedan’s Sunni leader said the government previously had agreed to provide the Sunni community with a larger lot in order to build […]
Incessant Clashes with Members of “Maktabe Quran”
A new wave of pressure is mounting on Iranian Sunnis as the ruling council of Maktabe Quran organization, a Kurdish Sunni group, announced through a statement that a number of its members had been summoned and interrogated by the security apparatus of the Islamic republic of Iran.
Eight Kurdish Sunni citizens were detained in Muchesh, Kamyaran
Eight Kurdish Sunni citizens (followers of Maktab Koran) from Muchesh, were detained by security forces after they were called by police station.
Three Iranian Sunni M.D. students were fired with no certification
Three Iranian Kurdish M.D. students with Sunni faith were fired from college with no certification.
Protests in Sistan-Baluchistan turn deadly
Protests against the arrest of the Rask Friday Mass leader’s son in Sistan-Baluchistan have left at least one protester dead and many injured, after the city’s military and security forces opened fire on the crowd.
Sunni Parliamentary Faction Objects to Ethnic and Religious Discrimination in Letter to Ayatollah Khamenei
In a letter addressed to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, Sunni members of the Iranian Parliament asked for an end to discrimination against Sunnis, an end to religious limitations for Sunnis, and permission to construct a mosque in Tehran.
Iranian regime arrests 10 Sunni Iranian Arabs in Khuzestan for unknown reasons
Freedom Messenger – A group of Sunni residents of Ahwaz were arrested in the past few days by security forces and were transferred to an unknown location.
Iran: Clerical Regime Looks To Impose Control Over Iran’s Sunni Seminaries
By Hossein Aryan, RFE/RLThe Shi’ite clerical regime of Iran appears to be intensifying its repression of the country’s Sunnis under the guise of “reorganizing” their seminaries.