{"id":3368,"date":"2014-02-08T14:10:32","date_gmt":"2014-02-08T14:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=3368"},"modified":"2014-02-08T14:10:32","modified_gmt":"2014-02-08T14:10:32","slug":"there-is-no-wahhabism-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2014\/02\/08\/3368\/","title":{"rendered":"There is no Wahhabism in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news3\/younesi%20wahhabism.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px;\" \/>The Special Advisor to the Iranian president on minorities, Ali Younesi, has underlined some elements exaggerate on issues like \u2018Wahhabism\u2019 and separating movements.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In an interview with Daily Etemaad, he criticized pro-regime sides on blaming Sunnis for Wahhabism. He said, \u201cAs some people exaggerate about the phenomenon of Wahhabism in Iran; it is wrong and hyperbolic. I have met some [Shia] clerics and learnt they had received wrong and biased reports about Sunnis.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cThere are some anti-Sunni movement and particular individuals who cannot show their opposition with Sunnis; they take the help of the terms like \u2018Wahhabism\u2019 and \u2018Salafism\u2019 to marginalize Sunnis,\u201d he added more. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In another part of his interview, he informed many of prisoners from minorities have been released and some more will be freed soon. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ali Younesi, the Intelligence Minister in the cabinet of Mohammad Khatami, has been appointed the \u2018Special Advisor to the President on the Affairs of Religious Sects and Ethnic Communities\u2019 by Dr. Hassan Rouhani, the moderate president of Iran. He had promised to employ some capable men of sects, particularly Sunni Balochs, soon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source:<\/span> <strong><em>SunniOnline &amp; Daily Etemaad<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Special Advisor to the Iranian president on minorities, Ali Younesi, has underlined some elements exaggerate on issues like \u2018Wahhabism\u2019 and separating movements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c58-ahl-al-sunna-in-iran"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>There is no Wahhabism in Iran - 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