Molavi Abdolhamid Ismaeelzahi, the spiritual leader of Iran's Sunnis, said in a Friday, December 16, 2022 sermon in Zahedan, the capital of the Sunni-majority Iranian province of Sistan and Baluchestan, that the prisoners from the recent anti-regime protests should be released. He said that the verdict of moharebeh (rebellion against God) should not warrant the death penalty,