Khateeb of Ahl-us-Sunnah in Zahedan refused statements of some influential Shia clerics over the ‘growing population’ of the Sunni community in Iran in his recent Friday speech on March 28, 2014.

The funeral ceremony of the senior Iranian Sunni scholar, late Mawlana Ahmad Narui, has been held on 18 March 2014 in Zahedan, southeastern Iran.

Mawlana Ahmad Narui, the interim Khateeb of Sunnis in Zahedan, lost his life in a road accident today, March 17, 2014 (15th Jumadi al-Oula) near Zahedan city, southerstern Iran.

The outstanding Iranian Sunni leader called on the Iranian president, Dr. Hassan Rouhani, to fulfil his promises on the rights of the nation including the Sunni community. He was talking to thousands of students in the Grand Makki Masjid of Zahedan on Thursday, March 13, 2014.

Amid repeated promises to provide equal rights for Iranian Sunni Muslims, members of the religious minority have been raising concerns about ongoing discrimination they face at the hands of the Shiite majority.

The outstanding Iranian Sunni leader, Shaikh Abdol-Hamid Isma’eelzahi, has been banned from taking part in a conference to be held by the Muslim World League in Makkah Mukarramah.

Shaikh-ul-Islam Mawlana Abdol-Hamid termed ‘indiscrimination and ignoring ground realities across the world’ the main reason of the problems in the contemporary era.

Decrying the abduction and creating violence in Sistan-Baluchistan, southeastern Iran, Shaikh Abdol-Hamid Isma’eelzahi termed such unjustified acts ‘big cruelty to the Sunni community of Iran’ in the Friday gathering of Sunnis in Zahedan on Feb. 14, 2014.

The prominent Iranian Sunni scholar has urged “none of human powers can stop Muslims’ awakening movement” in a meeting held inside the Grand Makki Masjid on Monday evening, 10t Feb. 2014, about the 35th anniversary of the revolution in Iran.

The Special Advisor to the Iranian president on minorities, Ali Younesi, has underlined some elements exaggerate on issues like ‘Wahhabism’ and separating movements.