TEHRAN: A leading figure of Iran’s mi**rity Sunnis endorsed moderate President Hassan
Rouhani on Saturday ahead of this week’s election, despite the government’s "shortcomings".
Religious
leader Molavi Abdol Hamid said "the atmosphere for Sunnis has been a little more relaxed" since
Rouhani took power in 2013, and that most would support him in Friday’s election.
Abdol Hamid repeated calls for greater
Sunni representation in local and national government, and more action on discrimination.
"The
Sunni community believes that this government, despite its problems and weaknesses, has had more strong points, and we hope if the current government takes ****** again, it will do more to resolve those problems and shortcomings," he said in comments carried by his website.
He was speaking in Sistan Baluchistan province, a Sunni-majority region in southeastern Iran bordering Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Rouhani is leading in official polls, but faces a tough fight for
re-election against conservative rivals who accuse him of failing to boost the struggling eco**my.
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