The most influential Islamic scholar of the Iranian Sunni community has asked supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to stop the hanging process of the Sunni prisoners.

Mawlana Shahabuddin Shaheedi was one of the most influential and greatest scholars in Khorasan province of Iran. He passed away due to heart attack in his hometown on Wednesday 1st Feb. 2017 in a local hospital.

The pictures and videos of 8 Iranian Baluch sailors, kidnapped for ransom, have been released by the pirates.

SunniOnline | A condolence reference was held inside Darululoom Zahedan’s main campus honoring Shaikh-ul-Hadith Maulana Saleemullah Khan on Tuesday Jan. 17, 2017.

Calling on the authorities to ‘review some of their domestic and foreign stances’, the outstanding Iranian Sunni leader termed ‘religious freedom’ and ‘equality’ among the indisputable due rights of the Iranian Sunnis.

The eminent Iranian Sunni scholar criticized rise in ‘narrow-mindedness’ and ‘fanaticism’ in the Muslim world and urged on a ‘new approach’ for the Islamic unity.

A conference has been held in the biggest Sunni mosque of Iran under the title of ‘Seerah & Unity’ where dozens of provincial and national officials and figures took part on Monday 12th Dec. 2016.

Dozens of the Iranian scholars and MPs met with the president Hassan Rouhani ahead of the Unity Week in Iran on Sunday 11th Dec. 2016 in Tehran.

The main Fiqh academy of the Iranian Sunni community, Islamic Fiqh Academy of Iranian Sunnis, held its 22nd meeting in Darululoom Zahedan on 3-4 Dec. 2016.

Note: It was Khabaronline, a local news agency, which posted a report about 21 Iranian Baloch sailors captured by some Somali pirates for the first time. Subsequently some other newspapers and news agencies talked with the family members of the hostages.