Dozens of students took part in the 19th provincial competitions of speech, essay writing and poetry in Islamic School of Mawlana Abdol-Aziz in Zahedan, Iran. The three-day long competition was concluded on Thursday 22nd Feb. 2018.

More than 465,000 civilians have been killed in Syria’s six-year civil war, a refugee rights group said Saturday.

Iranian Sunni MPs and scholars in the Western province of Kermanshah denounced distortion of Shaikh Abdol-Hamid’s speech about the earthquake in Kermanshah and Iraqi Kurdistan.

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:

The most influential Iranian Sunni scholar urged on equality between Shia and Sunni communities terming discrimination the main reason of extremism in the region.

Turkey’s Ministry of National Education integrated nearly half a million Syrian children into the education system in the 2016-2017 academic year, according to official data.

*I always prefer the national interest, then the interests of the Sunni community [of Iran].

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”.

Mawlana Mohammad Hassan Barfi, Friday Imam and rector of the Islamic seminary in Tabas-Masinâ, is one of the old-line and reputable Ūlamâ/Islamic scholars in the province of South Khorâsân.

SunniOnline: absence of the most influential Iranian Sunni leader, Shaikh Abdol-Hamid Isma’eelzahi in the second inauguration ceremony of the president Hassan Rouhani has had a worldwide coverage with reactions from different circles. Both Shia and Sunni personalities and many members of the Iranian parliament also criticized the government and the executive board of the parliament […]