{"id":781,"date":"2017-08-01T06:16:20","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T06:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/?p=781"},"modified":"2017-08-01T06:16:20","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T06:16:20","slug":"engage-sunnis-to-increase-respect-of-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/2017\/08\/781\/","title":{"rendered":"Engage Sunnis to Increase Respect of Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The most influential Iranian Sunni leader urged on focusing and highlighting \u201cIranian nationality and motherland not sect and religion\u201d.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Talking to the activists of the campaign for president Rouhani in Tehran on Wednesday 24th May, Shaikh Abdol-Hamid said: \u201cThe Sunni brothers and sisters think of their country and its respect, peace and advancement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The re-elected president Rouhani, First Vice-president Jahangiri and campaign heads and advisers of president Rouhani from all provinces of Iran were present in the conference to honor the activists.  <\/p>\n<p>The Friday imam and rector of Darululoom Zahedan further said: \u201cThe Sunni community of Iran is the inseparable part of the great Iranian nation who is ready to sacrifice for the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d like to ask the president that our nationality and country should be presented not sects, religions and race. Religion is a personal issue between the person and Allah Almighty,\u201d Mawlana Abdol-Hamid addressed the re-elected president.<\/p>\n<p>More than 7 million Sunni voters supported the moderate president Rouhani, who won the 12th presidential race on 19th May, 2017. <\/p>\n<p>During the speech, the participants of the conference chanted slogans of \u201cLong Live Molavi\u201d. They also stood and clapped for him many times before and after the short speech. <\/p>\n<p>Shaikh Abdol-Hamid has many Shia fans in Iran who shared selected parts of his speech before president Rouhani.<\/p>\n<p>He concluded his points by calling on the officials to engage the capable members of the Iranian Sunni community in higher posts. <\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_783\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-783\" src=\"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/molana-tehran-24May2017-3-300x207.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-783\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/molana-tehran-24May2017-3-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/molana-tehran-24May2017-3.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-783\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shaikh Abdol-Hamid was welcomed by Rouhani&#8217;s supporters warmly<\/p><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/molana-tehran-24May2017-2-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-784\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/molana-tehran-24May2017-2-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/molana-tehran-24May2017-2.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/molana-tehran-24May2017-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-785\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/molana-tehran-24May2017-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/molana-tehran-24May2017.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/wajah-rouhani-tehran-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-786\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/wajah-rouhani-tehran-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/wajah-rouhani-tehran-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/wajah-rouhani-tehran.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nShaikh Abdol-Hamid urged on \u201cfundamental changes over ethnic and religious communities\u201d and said: \u201cEngagement and employing of Sunnis will increase the respect of Iran on regional and international deals and levels.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most influential Iranian Sunni leader urged on focusing and highlighting \u201cIranian nationality and motherland not sect and religion\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[48,30,39,18,24],"class_list":["post-781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-views","tag-election","tag-iran","tag-rouhani","tag-shaikh-abdol-hamid","tag-tehran"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781","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=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":787,"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions\/787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}