NCRI Statement - The Iranian regime’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has appointed an adviser on Sunni affairs, news agencies reported. The latest move is as absurd as it is demagogic. Ahmadinejad is a notorious torturer in a regime which has for over 25 years opposed the building of a Sunni mosque for millions of Sunnis in Tehran, and destroyed the Ma’mour Sunni mosque (Feiz Mosque) in Mashad. At the same time, the regime perpetrates crimes against Iraqi Sunnis to intimidate them to submit to a religious dictatorship in Iraq.

Ayatollah Jalal Gange’i, Chair of the Committee on Denominations and Freedom of Religions of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, stressed: “Our Sunni brethren in Iran must enjoy the full rights and privileges of citizens without any discrimination. According to the legal document approved by this Council (plan for separation of religion and state) more than 21 years ago, no Iranian citizen shall enjoy any privileges or be subject to any deprivations for reason of belief or non-belief in a particular religion or denomination.”

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