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Its population is 98 percent Muslim, around 97 percent of them Sunni and 3 percent Shia. Neighboring Iran is militantly Shia, for what it’s worth.

Iranian Shia are known for getting Sunni to do their "dirty work" for them.

Hammas is a Sunni catspaw of Iranian Shia.

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See post 6.

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ISIS-K is also supposed to be tied to attacks against Iran. Of course this may not be true:

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Kerman bombings

On 3 January 2024, a commemorative ceremony marking the assassination of Qasem Soleimani at his grave in eastern Kerman, Iran, was attacked by two bomb explosions. The attacks killed at least 94 people,[1] and injured 284 others.[2][6] The Iranian government declared the bombings a terrorist attack,[7] making it the deadliest such incident in the country since the Cinema Rex attack of 1978.[8] On the following day, the Islamic State, a Sunni Muslim extremist group, claimed responsibility for the attack in the Shia Muslim dominated country.[9] According to Reuters, the United States Intelligence Community concluded that the attack was perpetrated by the Afghanistan branch of the Islamic State, ISIS-K.[3]