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Example sentences for: shiite
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U.S. investigators believe the man, Hani Abdel Rahim Sayegh, is a Shiite Muslim possibly connected to the Iran-supported terrorist group Hezbollah, which they suspect is responsible for the bombing.
The WP reports that Iran has positioned about 35,000 troops along its Afghani border in response to reports that the Sunni-dominated Taliban regime has murdered 10 Iranian diplomats and thousands of Shiite civilians in northern Afghanistan.
Wait, sorry, it was Iranian Shiite Muslim clergy who jailed the kids; I keep confusing Tehran and New York.
Nevertheless, and despite his reputation as a moderate liberal, Khatami, the son of an ayatollah, remains a product of Iran's Shiite Muslim clerical establishment.
Iraq is dominated by a Sunni Muslim minority, which crushed a spontaneous 1991 rebellion by the Shiite majority.