Abbas Amanat

One of my books is always Shiite, the other book's always Shi.

And that hasn't been settled.

But the Shi population is the smaller compared to the Sunni population in the world.

In the world.

In the world.

But in Iran, it's the opposite.

The Iran and Iraq, and possibly now Lebanon,

are the three countries who barely, Iraq and Lebanon, have barely majority Shi'i population.

Whereas Iran is a large Shi'i population due to its history of conversion to Shi'ism.

That by itself is another story.

But in the sense that the way that historically it evolved, the center became more Shi'i

and the peripheries remained Sunni.

So you have communities of the Baloch in the Southeast, you have the Kurds, a large portion of the Kurds are Sunnis,

They have Shias as well.

Then they have the indigenous religion of their own, what's called Ahl al-Haq, which is the religion of indigenous to Kurdistan.

There are Turkomans in the northeast of Iran who are also Sunnis.

There are other communities in Khorasan region, in the peripheries of Afghanistan.

They are also Sunnis.

And you have some Arab population, Arab speaking population in the Khuzestan province, in the Southwest of Iran, which is also, or across the Persian Gulf.

Yeah, the answer to your lovely question, which I think, I hope it would have happened to me, is that yes, you would see different cultures.