“The enemies are seeking to create a rift between Muslims in order to establish their hegemony in the region,” the president said at the meeting.

The enemies are using the human rights issue and the campaign against terrorism as pretexts to maintain their hegemony over nations, he added.

Differences should be put aside, and “together, we should enlighten the Muslim world about the enemies’ plots and should reveal the enemies’ ulterior motives to Muslims,” he said.

He went on to say that it is wrong to divide Muslim people into Shia and Sunni.

All Iranian people are valuable assets of the country, and their potential should be utilized to develop the country, he stated.

“In the Islamic Republic’s view, all Iranians are brothers and have equal rights.”

Sunni Muslims are a minority group in Iran. Approximately 90 percent of Iranians are Shias and 9 percent are Sunnis. The other 1 percent are mostly Christians, Zoroastrians, and Jews

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