Hassan Rouhani overwhelmingly won presidential election scoring 57% of votes fending off a challenge by principlist rival Ebrahim Raisi.

Mawlana Abdol-Hamid, the famous Sunni scholar in Iran, has declared that most Sunnis are inclined to vote for the current president, Hassan Rouhani, in the upcoming May 19 election, despite their complaints about his government.

A leading figure of Iran’s minority Sunnis endorsed moderate President Hassan Rouhani on Saturday ahead of this week’s election, despite the government’s “shortcomings”.

At least 25 people have been killed and over 40 others injured in an explosion in Balochistan’s Mastung district, which is around an hour’s drive from the provincial capital, Quetta.

Dozens of Iranian Sunni elites gathered in Tehran on Sunday 7th May, 2017 to discuss on the strategy of the Sunni community over the upcoming presidential election.

The international quarterly magazine of Neday Islam and monthly magazine of As-Sahwat-ul-Islamia have taken part in the 8th Istanbul International Press Exhibition.

Ismail Haniya has been elected as the new leader of Hamas’s political bureau, according to the Palestinian movement’s news agency.

Relative calm prevailed Saturday in wide parts of war-ravaged Syria despite sporadic violations and clashes after a deal to set up “de-escalation zones” in mostly opposition-held areas went into effect, opposition activists and government media outlets said.

The 30th Tehran International Book Fair was kicked off on 2nd May, 2017 in Tehran. About 11 Iranian Sunni publishers also take part in the fair.

Turkish Director of Religious Affairs Mehmet Gormez led the Friday prayer for the opening of a mosque in the city of Kostroma in western Russia.