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Protests have taken place in Zahedan every Friday for the past four months, despite a deadly crackdown by security forces.

Molavi Abdolhamid said it was wrong for the hardline judiciary to charge protesters with "moharebeh" - an Islamic term meaning warring against God.

BEHIND THE LINES: The possibility of further deterioration remains very real. Iraq is currently passing through its most tense days since the ISIS war eight years ago. 

Officials said the attacker was a 21-year-old ethnic Uzbek from Afghanistan with radical Sunni views.

BEHIND THE LINES: Politically eclipsed but enjoying popular support, Sunni Islamism currently manifests itself largely in episodes of murderous violence.

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“The Arab world now says that relations with Israel is more important than the Palestinian issue, which cannot be solved by Abu Mazen, for the foreseeable future.”

The minority Shi'ite community in Sunni Muslim-majority Malaysia has been subject to discrimination and persecution by authorities, human rights groups have said.

Lebanese Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil said on Saturday Arab ministers had expressed support for a proposal to declare that the US move violated the U.N. charter against acquiring land by force.

The ceasefire in Hodeidah has largely held but violence escalated elsewhere.