Birjand is the provincial capital of Khorasan-e Jonoubi (South Khorasan) in the eastern part of Iran. It is one of the famous and historical Iranian cities with more than 200 thousand population.

Recently a popular Iranian daily newspaper interviewed Shaikh Abdol-Hamid in Zahedan, the most influential Iranian Sunni leader. The journalist of the paper asked him questions on different domestic and regional issues. Here is a summary of his interview:

AA: Maulana Abdolhamid, popularly known Shaikh al-Islam Maulana Abdolhamid among the Iranian Sunnis, is one of the outstanding and most influential figures of the Sunni community in Iran. The people of Baluchistan, southeastern Iran, know him as the Friday imam of “Grand Makki Mosque” and president-rector of “Darululoom Zahedan”.

A delegation of Sunni elites of Tehran has met the police chief of Tehran and vice-governor of Tehran province separately.

Professor Dr. Sayyid Ajmal Abdur Razak al-Aidrus suddenly passed away on Sunday 16th Sep. 2017 due to cardiac arrest in Malaysia. “We belong to Allah and to Him we shall return”. It was a shocking news for me.

The rector and principal of Darululoom Zahedan, the biggest Islamic seminary in Iran, talked to dozens of rectors and teachers of Islamic seminary, imams of mosques and Khateebs at the Grand Makki mosque on 26th July, 2017.

Zahedan – SunniOnline: Hundreds of Darululoom Zahedan’s alumni gathered at this famous Islamic educational center to take part in the 3rd convocation of the graduates on 26-27 July, 2017.

The most influential Iranian Sunni leader urged on focusing and highlighting “Iranian nationality and motherland not sect and religion” He also called on the officials to engage Sunnis on higher posts to increase the respect of Iran.

Sunnis of Iran know well the ongoing circumstances of their country. They do not expect any revolutionary change in the case of their due rights.

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.