The outstanding Iranian Sunni leader criticized provincial authorities over forbidding him to travel to Rameshk city of Kerman province.

Recently a popular Iranian daily newspaper interviewed Shaikh Abdol-Hamid in Zahedan, the most influential Iranian Sunni leader. The journalist of the paper asked him questions on different domestic and regional issues. Here is a summary of his interview:

The most influential Iranian Sunni scholar urged on equality between Shia and Sunni communities terming discrimination the main reason of extremism in the region.

Recently some famous Islamic seminaries of Iranian Sunnis in the provinces of Khorasan and Western Azerbaijan have faced massive pressures to swap students from particular areas or to close the schools. Talking exclusively to “abdolhamid.net”, Shaikh-ul-Islam Mawlana Abdol-Hamid urged on…

Note: Read some important parts of Shaikh Abdol-Hamid’s talk with the official Iranian news agency (ISNA) about the Iranian Sunnis, Iranian politics, Muslim world and women’s rights: *I always prefer the national interest, then the interests of the Sunni community…

AA: Maulana Abdolhamid, popularly known Shaikh al-Islam Maulana Abdolhamid among the Iranian Sunnis, is one of the outstanding and most influential figures of the Sunni community in Iran. The people of Baluchistan, southeastern Iran, know him as the Friday imam…

SunniOnline: absence of the most influential Iranian Sunni leader, Shaikh Abdol-Hamid Isma’eelzahi in the second inauguration ceremony of the president Hassan Rouhani has had a worldwide coverage with reactions from different circles. Both Shia and Sunni personalities and many members…

SunniOnline: An attempt for military coup in Turkey in the late hours of Friday 15th July and the disgraceful defeat of the coup plotter carried out different reactions in the world, especially among the Muslim societies. Most of the Muslim…

Khateeb of Sunnis in Zahedan called on Muslims to know their enemies well and termed both of the US and Russia ‘opportunist powers’.

The outstanding Iranian Sunni scholar has asked the Iranian foreign minister and Somalian president asking them to make their efforts to release the Iranian Baloch sailors captured by some pirates of Somalia.