Sohrab Ahmari
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ally is actually a minority state.
It's it's only 20 percent Sunni and they rule over 80 percent Shiites.
So if the Shiites there get angry, is Bahrain stable?
Probably, and it'll take a great deal of repression.
But just, you know, it's one of those Pandora's boxes that I don't think should have been opened willy-nilly.
And I think they did it based on vibes and the kind of false assurances of...
Men like Bibi and men like Lindsey Graham here in the United States.
Not so much anyone even in the cabinet, I think.
I think it's really the outside figures.
You know, like the Mark Levin.
Yeah.
Yes.
So Iran, often a lot of Iranians like to describe themselves as Persian.
And I think the reason they do that, Iran is a very old term.
Actually, it goes back millennia and it means the land of the Aryans.
But some Iranians, because Iran is especially Iranians in the diaspora, because Iran is associated with the Ayatollahs and terrorism and so on, like to describe themselves as Persian.
But Persian is really there's only about 50 percent, 51 percent of the country that's Persian.
You have Kurds there.
You have Azeris, you have Lors.
These are different ethnic and linguistic groups.