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Iran's Sectarian Wars in Sunni Lands
Tehran spent over a decade keeping a minority sect in power over a Sunni-majority country, then tried to convert what was left of it
Syria is roughly three-quarters Sunni Arab. Iran spent thirteen years, tens of thousands of imported Shia militia fighters, and a documented conversion campaign keeping an Alawite minority regime in power over them anyway.
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