

| Iranian Revolutionary Court Executes Two Sunni Scholars |
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| Friday, 11 April 2008 23:23 | |||
Iranian sources confirmed that Iranian authorities carried out death sentence for two Sunni scholars in Zahidan City, center of Baluchistan Province without the presence of any lawyer and the right of defend.
The decision was the execution of two sheikhs by the Revolution Court which carried out secretly without accepting the presence of a lawyer to defend them. It is noteworthy that Mullah Zihi was the director of Dar al Furqan Religious School in the city of Iranshar in Baluchistan province. Sheikh Muhammad Omar Sarbazi which was assassinated last year had confessed later on that Iranian intelligence services agents imposed him the task. On the other hand the Sunni community in the Iranian city of Mashad, the capital of Khorasan Province expressed their concern over the fate of a senior Sunni scholar in the governorate arrested by the special court of clerics a few days ago. Residents said that these forces belong to the court of clerics arrested last week Sheikh Abdul Ali Khair Shahi one of the prominent ahl Sunni community scholar in Iran taking him to an unknown location.
They are divided into three main ethnicities as Baluch, Kurds, Turkmen and a few Arabs in Arabistan (al Ahwaz) territory while Sunni Muslims from Persian-Iraq their presence is rare. Iran has been a Sunni State until the tenth century AH.
In spite of the fact they represent the largest religious minority in the country, but the level of their representation in Parliament and the ministerial formation is not commensurate with the numerical proportion.
The Iranian government justifies its refusal to Shiite mosques are open to people of the Sunni community to reach, and that there was no need for Sunnis to build their own mosques.
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