The 12th nationwide Qur’anic competition for hifdh and qiraah (memorization and recitation of the Qur’an) has been held in Darululoom Zahedan, Iran.

Note: Recently some pro-state extremist web portals, who have been striving to defame leading dignitaries, highlighted outstanding Sunni leader’s participation in funeral prayers of an assassinated tribal chief and absence of Shaikh in public rally held over the 34th anniversary of the revolution in Iran.

first Iranian presidential visit to Egypt for more than thirty years has been beset by controversy with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad being lectured by the Al-Azhar Grand Sheikh and then attacked outside a mosque by a man wielding a shoe.

Egypt’s top cleric Ahmed al-Tayyeb told visiting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday to not interfere in the affairs of Bahrain or the Gulf and to uphold the rights of his country’s Sunni minority.

IRAN, ZAHEDAN- A prominent Sunni scholar, Molawi Abdullah Brahui, was assassinated by unknown miscreants on Friday, 1st Feb. 2013 in Zahedan city.

Allah says: “Help one another in righteousness and piety, but do not help one another in sin and transgression. Fear Allah, for Allah is strict in punishment.” [Sūrah al-Mā’idah: 2] Allah has enjoined upon us to cooperate in righteousness and piety with everybody.

For the first time after peaceful demonstrations of Sunni masses and few Shiite sides in Iraq, the Iraqi army opened fire on a group of protesters on the day of “Friday of No Return” in Fallujah city.

The outstanding Sunni scholar, Shaikh Abdol-Hameed Ismaeelzahi, made it clear in a mass gathering of Sunni worshippers in Zahedan that nations can get progress and efflorescence only through unity, urging solidarity can not be obtained by slogans and mere wishes.

Shaikh-ul-Islam Mawlana Abdol-Hameed urged on implementation of justice and equality in all fields counting injustice main cause of all wars, insecurity and protests across the world in his latest Friday speech on January 18, 2013.

Cairo- Sheikh Ahmed Al-Tayeb, the Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar University and one of the most prestigious seats of learning in the Muslim world asked the Iranian Foreign Minister to provide Sunni Muslims full rights in Iran.