Warning about the growth of Takfiri terrorism in the region, the Iranian President said that unity between Shia and Sunni Muslims is a strategy for the Islamic Republic of Iran, not a tactic. Speaking in a meeting with a group of Sunni Muslim scholars and clerics, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi spoke about the important position of Sunni scholars ...

IRNA Lebanon Assembly of Muslim Scholars comprising dozens of Shia and Sunni scholars of the country in a statement on Saturday denounced terrorist attack in Ahvaz, describing it as one of the US plots to undermine Irans campaign for helping oppressed people. What happened today revealed full coordination between the US and Takfiri groups which serve ...

February 14, The Iran Project - Recently, several high-ranking Iranian officials have stressed the significant of forging Shia-Sunni unity to foil the enemies plots. Irans Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari as well as Sunni Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Mahdi al-Sumaidaie in separate remarks have stressed that Sunni and Shia ...

MNA Meeting with the chiefs of Sunni nomad tribes of Iraq, Iranian Parliament's General Director for International Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian praised Iraqi nomads for their stance against ISIL in the war on terror in Iraq. The role of Iraqi nomads in the war against terrorism was bold and positive and the Iraqi nomads, both Shias and Sunnis,...

IRNA A senior Iranian lawmaker said in southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan that Shia and Sunni Muslims are united in safeguarding the Islamic Republic's security and borderlines together. Addressing a local gathering in Iranshahr, Head of Parliament National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Aladdin Boroujerdi described the Islamic Republic ...

IRNA - The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) hailed the current unity among the Iranian Shia and Sunni people. 'Making unrest in Iran and regions like Sistan and Baluchestan province is the most important goal of the enemies,' Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari said in a local ceremony on Tuesday. He added that Shia and Sunni, altogether ...

IRNA Shia and Sunni Muslims are standing by each other in the most difficult times, The Supreme Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said. The martyrdom of a Sunni teenager during Iraqi-imposed war (1980-88) or a Sunni cleric (Molavi) in Iran indicates that Shia and Sunni are standing by each other even in the hardest eras, ...

IRNA We are strongly united against the [world] arrogance, said Grand Ayatollah Hossein Noori-Hamedani in a meeting with Grand Mufti of Syria Sheikh Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun in Qom. [Late] Imam Khomeini was [a] universal [character], and the development he brought about was global, as well. After the world arrogance united, late Imam Khomeini, for ...

IRNA - Chairman of Iran's Expediency Council described the unity between Shia and Sunni Muslims as essential in foiling conspiracies against Muslims and oppressed people. Afghans are oppressed and they have had many martyrs, Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi said on Monday in a meeting with Second Vice-Executive Chief of Afghanistan government Mohammad ...

MNA The special envoy of Philippine President Duterte for intercultural dialogue, is pushing for talks between Sunni and Shia Muslims, no matter how difficult, slim and almost impossible it may sound. The five-time former speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines, Jose Claveria de Venecia, who is currently serving as the Special ...

FNA- Iranian Supreme Leader's top aide Ali Akbar Velayati blasted the US and other states' attempts to create rift among Iraq's Shia, Sunni and Kurdish population, and said Tehran will stand against those who plot to disintegrate Iraq. "The three groups of Shias, Kurds and Sunnis have been living in Iraq for years and centuries and this is while ...

November 13, The Iran Project Millionsof faithfuls from across the globe are converging on the Iraqi city of Karbala to commemorate Arbaeen rituals, one of the most revered religious occasions on the Islamic calendar. Arbaeen, which is one of the largest religious gatherings in the world, comes 40 days after Ashura, the martyrdom anniversary of ...

November 5, The Iran Project-Irans Ambassador to Kuala Lumpur Marziyeh Afkham stresses the unity between Sunni and Shia Muslims as the best way to counter terrorism, saying all religious sects are brothers. Highliting the equality of all religious sects in an article, published in the English-language newspaper 'New Straits Times' on Saturday, Marziyeh ...

Kuala Lumpur, Oct 8, IRNA Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has said that the World of Islam today needs friendship and unity between Shia and Sunni Muslims. President Rouhani, who was addressing the Iranians residing in Malaysia on Saturday, stressed that Shia and Sunni Muslims should remove illusions about each other. 'We are not after Shiazation,...

According to a report by Jomhouri Eslami Newspaper, as translated by IFP, Abdolhamid Esmail Zahi, the Sunni Friday prayers leader of Irans southeastern city of Zahedan, hailed the valuable remarks by Ayatollah Khamenei about the need to avoid provoking the emotions of Sunnis. Abdolhamid Esmail ZahiThe remarks made people so much happy, and were ...

Tehran, Dec 24, IRNA Chairman of the Expediency Council Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said on Thursday that the Unity Week should be regarded as invaluable initiative to bolster solidarity between the Shia-Sunni Muslims and resolve the dispute in the Muslim World. Rafsanjani made the remarks in a message addressed to a ceremony of Unity Week marking ...