IRNA Extremism, religious bias as well as ShiaSunni dispute could not be found in the glorious history of Iran, but it is a so-called history which is unfairly attributed to our nation, Iran's foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarid said on Wednesday. Zarif made the remarks at meeting with the professors of Persian language from Bangladesh,...

IRNA A Lebanese delegation comprising Sunni figures headed by Secretary General of Ummah Movement Abdullah Jabari held talks with Irans Ambassador to the country Mohammad Jalal Firouznia on Monday. During the meeting held in Irans Embassy in Beirut, both sides discussed regional developments. They stressed unity as the pivot of resistance movement,...

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 ...

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, ...

IFP- According to a report translated by IFP, millions of Muslim pilgrims, mainly Shias, have been flocking to the Iraqi city of Karbala to mark Arbaeen, the 40th day after Imam Husseins martyrdom. Meanwhile, a Sunni Muslim in Iraq has written the following text on the back of his car: Im a Sunni, but I transport Shia pilgrims for free to show ...

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 ...

Bangkok, Oct 9, IRNA President Hassan Rouhani said on Sunday that Imam Hussein (AS) does not just belong to Islam and Shia Muslims and is rather popular among all freedom-lovers all across the globe. President Rouhani made the remarks in a mourning ceremony in Bangkok to commemorate martyrdom anniversary of Imam Hussein (AS), the grandson of Prophet ...

Tehran, Sept 20, IRNA - Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei on Tuesday urged Shia-Sunni solidarity and avoid provoking sentiments of other Islamic sects. Ayatollah Khamenei made the remarks while addressing a group of people who met the Leader on the occasion of one of the holiest and significant feasts of Shia Muslims,...

Alwaght- A Sunni conference was held in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya Republic in Russia, without inviting the Saudi muftis, signaling a great deal of Russian officials' concerns about possible influences of the Wahhabi and Salafist groups on the Muslims of the country. In fact, the Russian authorities in past few years have shown a rising ...

TEHRAN, Jul. 26 (MNA) President Rouhani said Sunni and Shia unity is among the fundamental principles of political thought of the Islamic Revolution noting that sectarian thoughts are plotted by enemies. Speaking during a meeting of Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution on Tuesday, Rouhani said Sunni and Shia unity is among the fundamental principles ...

Qom, March 15, IRNA A senior Shia cleric Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirzai said that one should differ between Sunni Muslims and Wahhabis as the latter have turned to puppets in the hands of Islam's enemies. Speaking at the ceremony to launch the website on exposing Wahabism here on Tuesday, he said, 'Daesh and al-Nusrah are vicious children of ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) The Lebanese Hezbollah Resistance Movements second-in-command, Sheikh Naim Qassem, underlined that the Palestinian issue is something on which Shias and Sunnis are unanimous. Speaking in a meeting with Iranian Cultural Attach to Lebanon Mohammad Mehdi Shariatmadar in Beirut, Sheikh Qassem praised the late founder of the Islamic Republic,...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iranians have begun traveling to Saudi Arabia for the hajj months after Tehran suspended a minor pilgrimage over the alleged abuse of two pilgrims by Saudi authorities. State TV says in a report on its website Sunday that 700 pilgrims left for Mecca and Medina, Islam's two holiest cities. Some 64,000 Iranians have permits to attend ...

(Reuters) - This week's advance by Sunni insurgents in Iraq provides a powerful argument for why Iran andSaudi Arabia should bury their Cold War-style feud, but is nonetheless likely to set back detente between the Gulf's dominant Sunni and Shi'ite powers. After decades of often overt Saudi-Iranian hostility that polarized the Middle East - and three ...

Jerusalem Post, an Israeli news website, in an article published on Monday, October 29, 2012, tried to deflect charge of recent terror attacks in Iran'sSunni-dominated Sistan-Baluchistan from itself and show it due toSunniShia sectarian tensionswhile bothShiites and Sunnis have hurt in recent attacks. As minoritys religious leader calls for political ...

By Reuters (Reuters) - Iran's most powerful authority, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Thursday accused the United States and Israel of fomenting divisions among Muslims to undermine "Islamic uprisings" across the Middle East. "By exploiting inattention ... corrupt American, NATO and Zionist agents are trying to divert the deluge-like movement of ...