Ethnic strife looms large as Trump’s weighs options in Iran

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer by Mideastsoccer

Sep 21, 202600:12:13News & Politics

Arrests of Shiite clerics in Sunni-ruled Shiite-majority Bahrain and the recent assassinations in Iran of Baloch and Kurdish religious figures raise the spectre of the US-Iran war energising ethnic and religious fault li...

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