{"id":180,"date":"2013-09-05T13:50:47","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T10:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/2013\/09\/05\/statement-saravan-iran-politics\/"},"modified":"2013-09-05T13:50:47","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T10:20:47","slug":"statement-saravan-iran-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/2013\/09\/180\/","title":{"rendered":"State of Asphyxia Must be Uprooted in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; line-height: 1.3em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news\/molana_khatm1432.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" \/>The prominent Iranian Sunni leader welcomed the motto of the new government describing attempts to create violence \u2018a big betrayal to the Sunnis of Iran\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000; line-height: 1.3em;\">Talking to hundreds of Sunni citizens in Saravan city of the Iranian Baluchistan on Sunday 1st September, 2013, he said, \u201cBy the blessings of Allah Almighty, the country is experiencing a good and stable condition. People surprised the world by their high turnout in the recent presidential election. They elected the one who was in accordance with their wishes and needs. Dr. Rouhani (the new Iranian president) also promised in his swearing-in ceremony to remove the \u2018state of suffocation\u2019 from the country.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Shaikh Abdol-Hamid further said that the new president has underlined in many occasions to take care of the rights of all Iranians regardless to their sect and race. He clarified Iran belongs to all Iranians. His ministers are capable and wide-awake, too. But he needs the support of the nation to fulfill his promises.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Alluding to an important issue, he said more, \u201cWhatever president Rouhani says about the rights of different communities, the Sunni community of Iran has been demanding it as well. The president repeats our words. We have been urging on uprooting discrimination in policies and public services. All should gain their due rights fairly.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The most influential Sunni scholar in Iran called on the officials and local authorities to adjust themselves with the stances of the new government. \u201cIt wonders me that some officials have not received the message of the president about \u2018hope\u2019 and \u2018discretion\u2019. It seems they (officials) do not pay any attention to the new circumstances in the country,\u2019 he added more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">At the end of his speech in the graduation ceremony of \u201cIsha\u2019at-ut-Taweed\u201d seminary in Saravan city, Shaikh Abdol-Hamid invited all sides to benefit from the environment of dialogue and tolerance in Iran. He denounced violent movements in the country calling it \u2018betrayal to the Sunnis\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prominent Iranian Sunni leader welcomed the motto of the new government describing attempts to create violence \u2018a big betrayal to the Sunnis of Iran\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-views"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}