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Iran president appoints Sunni politician as his deputy

Tehran, IRNA – Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian has appointed Abdolkarim Hosseinzadeh, a Sunni, as his deputy for rural development and deprived areas.
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Iran appoints Sunni politicians as deputy president, provincial governor

Tehran, IRNA – The Iranian government spokesperson says that two Sunni politicians appointed as the deputy president and the provincial governor in the country.
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Iran’s Sunni community leaders support anti-Israel operation

Tehran, IRNA – Leaders of Iran’s Muslim Sunni community have declared their support for the country’s decisive military action against the Zionist regime of Israel.
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Supreme Leader stresses significance of unity in Islamic Ummah

Tehran, IRNA – Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has highlighted the significance of Islamic unity, stating that the issue of the Islamic Ummah should not be consigned to oblivion.
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Iran president appoints Sunni politician as his deputy for rural affairs

Tehran, IRNA – Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has appointed Abdolkarim Hosseinzadeh, a Sunni politician, as his deputy president for rural development.
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Iran’s Sunni group slams Kerman terror attacks

Tehran, IRNA – The Planning Council of Sunni Religious Science Schools of Iran issued a statement on Thursday, denouncing the terrorist attacks in the southeastern city of Kerman a day earlier.
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Foreign Ministry: Kerman terrorist crime shows vileness of Iranian nations’ enemies

Tehran, IRNA – Iran’s Foreign Ministry has said that the Wednesday terrorist attacks in Kerman show the height of the enemies’ wickedness and indicate that they have resorted to criminal methods to get rid of a self-made crisis.
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Iran a ‘model’ of ethnic, religious coexistence: Sunni MPs

Tehran, IRNA - A group of Sunni lawmakers in Parliament has expressed gratitude to Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Mohammad Mehdi Esmaili for utilizing the capacities of the Sunni community in various cultural and artistic sectors in Iran.
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President Raisi meets Shia, Sunni clerics of Kurdistan

Sanandaj, IRNA – Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi held talks with Sunni and Shia clerics in Kurdistan Province during his one-day trip to the western region on Thursday.
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Zahedan Sunni Friday prayer leader meets Supreme Leader's representative

Zahedan, IRNA – Zahedan Sunni Friday prayer leader Abdul-Hamid Esmail-Zehi on Sunday evening met and conferred with Supreme Leader's dispatched representative to the province.
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Unity, important factor in foiling enemies’ plots: Sunni cleric

Gonbad-e Kavoos, IRNA – A Sunni cleric in this northern Iranian city stressed the need on Sunday to preserve “unity” and solidarity among religions residing in Iran.
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President Raisi depicts Shia-Sunni unity as Iran strategy

Tehran, IRNA – President Ebrahim Raisi has underscored that unity among Shias and Sunnis is considered as a strategy, not a tactic, from the standpoint of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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No difference between Sunni, Shia in Islamic Republic: Official

Zahedan, IRNA – The governor-general of Iran’s Sistan and Baluchestan Province said that the Islamic Republic doesn’t differentiate between Shia and Sunni and people of different colors and ethnicities.
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Modern Islamic civilization not to be realized without Shiite-Sunni cooperation

Zahedan, IRNA – Secretary-General of the World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought (Taqrib) Hamid Shahriari said that the modern Islamic civilization couldn’t be materialized without cooperation between Shiite and Sunni denominations.
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By: Mohsen Pakaein

Islamic unity with emphasis on common points

Tehran, IRNA - Achieving Islamic unity requires emphasizing commonalities and avoiding differences; In other words, the requirement of this action and the realization of unity and rapprochement of religions is that the scholars of Islamic world, due to the many commonalities in different fields, emphasize on them and make the commonalities the link between the Shiite and Sunni sects.
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Sunni prayers leader: Today, World of Islam needs unity

Zahedan, IRNA – A Sunni Friday prayers leader in southeastern Iran believes that the World of Islam needs expansion of unity today.
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Senior Sunni cleric lauds Election Day as crucial in Iran’s fate

Tehran, June 18, IRNA - Prominent Iranian Sunni leader and the Friday prayer leader of Sunnis' Makki Mosque in Zahedan, Molavi Abdul Hamid described the election day as a crucial day in the future of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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Sunni Ulema in northeast Iran express readiness for presidential election

Bojnourd, June 7, IRNA – Sunni Ulema and clerics in northeastern Iranian province of North Khorasan in a letter to the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution on Monday expressed their readiness to massively take part in the upcoming presidential election nationwide.
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Iranian Sunni clerics call for maximum participation in election

Mashhad, June 3, IRNA – A group of clerics and prayer Imams of the Sunni community in Taibad in Khorasan Razavi Province, east of Iran called on Iranians in a statement to broadly participate in the upcoming presidential elections.
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High turnout in Iran election to guarantee System: Sunni clerics

Bojnourd, June 2, IRNA – Turkmen Ulema (Islamic clerics) in northeastern Iranian province of North Khorasan say that high turnout in the upcoming election will guarantee country against enemies.
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Sunni cleric says vigilant nation attends election to decide for its fate

Zahedan, May 26, IRNA – A Sunni Friday prayers leader in southeastern Iran believes that Iranian nation are vigilant and will participate in the upcoming presidential election across Iran to decide for their fate.
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All Muslims seek freedom of Quds: Sunni cleric

Qasr-e Shirin, May 17, IRNa – The Friday Imam Sarpol Zahab city in western Iran said on Sunday that freedom the Holy Quds city is the wish of all Muslims and it is expected to come true soon.
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Pakistani clerics condemn release of blasphemous film

Islamabad, Jan 19, IRNA -- A number of prominent Sunni leaders and senior scholars along with Shia clergy in Pakistan have termed the release of blasphemous film ‘The Lady of Heaven’ a latest conspiracy by the enemies of unity of Ummah, urging Muslims to exercise vigilance against such evil plans.
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