Population trends Iran’s census claims 99.5% of its population is Muslim. using five demographic variables and voting behaviour in the 2017 presidential while 5% said they were Sunni
The leader of Iran’s Sunni population, Molavi Abdolhamid Ismaeelzahi, told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) that Sunnis should be invited to participate in the second-term government of newly re-elected
Iran covers an area of 1,648,195 km 2 (636,372 sq mi), making it the fifth-largest country entirely in Asia, and the second-largest in Western Asia (after Saudi Arabia ). Its population is 85 million, the 17th-most populous in the world. The capital and largest city is Tehran .
In the run-up to Iran’s May 19, 2017 presidential election, a Sunni Muslim former member of Parliament has renewed his call for members of his faith to be allowed to run for the country’s executive office. Article 115 of Iran’s Constitution requires the president to be a member of the country’s “official religion,” which, according to Article 12, is Shia Islam.
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According to some surveys, almost all of Iran’s 82,000,000 people are Muslim, with 90% of those being Shi’a, almost all of these from the Twelver sect. Another 10% are Sunni, most of them Kurds, Achomis, Turkmens, and Baluchs,
212 rowsReligion: Muslims (official religion) 99.4% (Shia 90-95%, Sunni 5-10%), other 0.3%,
| 1 | Tehran | 7,153,198 |
| 2 | Mashhad | 2,307,066 |
| 3 | Isfahan | 1,547,053 |
| 4 | Karaj | 1,447,964 |
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That shifts the focus to the minority Sunnis, who make up 8-10 percent of Iran’s overall population and are most strongly represented in regions near the borders with Iraq, Turkmenistan and
According to government estimates, Sunnis make up between 7% and 10% of Iran’s population. Sunni community leaders, however, say that figure may be as high as 25%. Iranian Sunnis have faced state-sanctioned repression of their faith, societal discrimination and economic deprivation for centuries.
In Iran, the Baluch total at least 1.5 million, or less than two percent of the 82 million population. Predominantly Sunni, they are also a religious minority in an overwhelmingly Shiite country. The Baluch insurgency has largely
The rare outreach to Iran’s Sunni community, conveyed by Khamenei’s chief assistant Mohammad Mohammadi Golpayegani on August 22, 2017, was published on September 6. Molavi Abdolhamid, the Friday prayer
Iran covers an area of 1,648,195 km 2 (636,372 sq mi), making it the fifth-largest country entirely in Asia, and the second-largest in Western Asia (after Saudi Arabia ). Its population is 85 million, the 17th-most populous in the world. The capital and largest city is Tehran .
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The U.S. government estimates the population at 82 million (July 2017 estimate). According to U.S. government estimates and other statistical reports, including Global Security and Iran Press Watch, Muslims constitute 99.4 percent of the population; 90-95 percent are Shia and 5-10 percent Sunni (mostly Turkmen,
The rare outreach to Iran’s Sunni community, conveyed by Khamenei’s chief assistant Mohammad Mohammadi Golpayegani on August 22, 2017, was published on September 6. Molavi Abdolhamid, the Friday prayer leader of Zahedan, the capital of Sistan and Baluchistan, had written a letter to Khamenei on August 2, 2017, calling for an end to “38 years