Senior cleric calls for strengthened national, Islamic unity

Tehran’s interim Friday prayers leader Hujjat al-Islam Mohammad Hassan Abu Torabi Fard said in this week’s Friday Prayers sermon in Tehran that “A nation that has unity is a symbol of determination, will, hope, and cause.”

He also said that national unity and Islamic unity are two definitive strategies for consolidating the pillars of national might and turning threats into opportunities.

“This unity is the result of understanding, dialogue, interaction originating in rationality and ethics and moving in the direction of the law,” the senior cleric added.

“In the social teachings of…