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Example sentences for: shiite
How can you use “shiite” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
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.
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.
Wait, sorry, it was Iranian Shiite Muslim clergy who jailed the kids; I keep confusing Tehran and New York.
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.