Iran prevent Leader of the Sunnis from traveling to attend a conference Association

Iranian authorities banned the leader of the Sunnis in the country, Sheikh Maulvi Abdul Hameed, a member of the World Federation of Muslim Scholars, from traveling to Mecca, to participate in the Muslim World Association.

Sources close to Sheikh Abdul Hamid said that the Iranian security authorities obstructed procedure to prevent him from traveling.

Sheikh Abdul Hamid apologized in a letter to the Secretary General of the Muslim World Association Dr. Abdullah bin Abdul Mohsen Turkish, about the possibility of not attending to participate in the conference, but did not explain his reasons for not traveling to Mecca.

According to Sheikh Abdul Hamid in his letter to the Secretary General of the Muslim World Association, serious and critical situation experienced by Muslims in Islamic countries, pointing to the difficulties and crises faced by the Muslims in their own countries.

Added that The rights of religious and ethnic minorities in Islamic countries stolen, and the humiliation of human dignity, and that is the legitimate demands of individual freedoms and respect for human values​​.

On the other hand, Gen. Masoud Gazery, Assistant Chief of Staff of the Iranian armed forces, he was liberated five Iranian soldiers were abducted by Sunni group in early February and transferred to Pakistan.

Gazery said: "The liberation of the five Iranian soldiers who were kidnapped and taken to Pakistan," adding that "all the security services and the military in the country participated" in the process of liberalization of the soldiers, without revealing the conditions of liberalization of Iranian soldiers.

The Pakistani authorities announced earlier, they saved 11 foreigners, including 8 Iranians in an attack carried out in Baluchistan province (southwest), near the border with Iran.