For another time, the Sunni residents of Tehran, the Iranian capital, have been banned from establishing own Eid prayers on Eid al-Adha day, celebrated on Oct. 16, 2013 in Iran.
On the eve of Eid al-Adha 2013, Shaikh Muhammad Hussein Gorgij, Sunni Khateeb of Azad-shahr, has urged the Sunni community must be free to establish own Eid prayers anywhere in Iran.
“The Society of Notion & Reform” of the students of Darululoom Zahedan, Iran, has held a meeting to introduce the great personality of late Mawlana Abdol-Aziz, the founder of Darululoom Zahedan, inside the main campus of the seminary.
The outstanding Iranian Sunni leader, Shaikh Abdol-Hamid Isma’eelzahi, has left Tehran to Madinah al-Munawwarah for performing Hajj of Tamattu’.
Shaikh Abdol-Hamid Isma’eelzahi, one of the top Sunni leaders in Iran, asked the Iranian Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to stop the execution of 26 Sunni Kurdish prisoners as soon as possible.
Khateeb of Sunni Muslims in Zahedan, Shaikh Abdol-Hamid, has asked the pertinent authorities to take action against particular individuals and media sources who humiliate ethnic and religious sects.
The outstanding Iranian Sunni leader, Mawlana Abdol-Hamid, has denounced strongly a Shia cleric over insulting Iranian Baloch women asking him and his satellite TV channel to apologize to the entire Baloch nation.
The new academic year, 1434-35, (2013-14) was begun in Darululoom Zahedan, Iran, by reading the first Hadith of the great Islamic book, Sahih al-Bukhari in the presence of students and teachers.
Khateeb of Sunnis in Zahedan, Iran, criticized the previous Iranian governments over failure to remove ethnic, religious and regional discriminations in public services and distribution of posts. He called on the new government to employ citizens impartially.
The Special Court for Scholars in Tabriz, northwest Iran, has sentenced a Sunni scholar, Mamousta Salam Golnawaz, to six years imprisonment defrocking him for lifetime on Monday, August 26, 2013.