“The activities that Islamic scholars are involved with, is of great importance so much so that a jurist’s position is considered 1000 times higher than that of a devoted Muslim at the side of Allah Almighty," said Ayatollah Wahid Khorasani.

"Iranian nation are not willing to perform Hajj pilgrimage under humiliation," highlighted top religious cleric.

US Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday told Britain’s top banks that they will not be penalized for conducting or facilitating business with Iran, but still blamed the reluctance of global corporations for doing business with Iran for the slow recovery that Iran expects after the removal of the sanctions.

New indications have appeared in the US that show global investments have not increased to the extent Iran expected after the international community lifted the nuclear-related sanctions on the country.

A top Iranian military commander says Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will remain in power despite the US wish to see him gone.

Iran says it will not send pilgrims to Hajj this year because Saudi Arabia is refusing to cooperate on arrangements for Iranians to join the annual rituals in September.

Chairman of the Expediency Council Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani hailed the positive results of Joint Comprehensive Plan Of Action.

Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of State Agency for Religious Affairs of Georgia said terrorism had nothing to do with Islam.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has accepted resignation of head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), Mohammad Sarafraz, appointing Abdolali Ali Asgari as his successor.