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.

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.