Thanx a lot Donny. Iran is hitting back and hitting back hard through out the Mid East.

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65. Wrong kind of Islam supposedly.

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Iran is majority Shia. Saudi and the southern Gulf states are majority Sunni. Kind of like Catholics and Protestants only they're still shooting at each other. Culturally, Iran is majority Persian. Saudi and the southern Gulf states are Arabs. Their languages are very different. Most Iranians speak Farsi, a Persian language. Persian is Indo-European, and in some ways similar to western languages. Arabic is a Semitic language. A whole different linguistic family that ironically includes Hebrew. They have different cultures stretching back a couple millennia. Then there's the question of who owns the Persian Gulf. Arabian Gulf if you're in Saudi. The religious, cultural and political rivalry between Arabs and Persians (Iranians) stretches back to at least the Muslim conquest of Persia in the 7th century. Perhaps even further back. A long history of bad blood.