Baku. During his visit to Iran, the head of the Caucasus
Muslims Department Allahshukur Pashazadeh met with the country's Supreme
Leader, Sayyid Ali Khamenei.
During the meeting they discussed issues
of religious radicalism and extremism and confrontation with these phenomena.
Khamenei stressed that the crimes
committed under the guise of religion have no relation to Islam. He called it a
provocation against Islam. During the
visit, Pashazadeh also met with well-known religious figures of Iran, Makarim
Shirazi and Jafar Subhani, discussing various issues. The visit of the CMO to Iran ended on 25
November. Recall that Pashazadeh was in Iran to attend a conference on
religious trends.