If Iranians were given a choice, many of them would become Sunni !

[tor_khan]

What is so special about Sunnis --just a deluded bunch of people---one should be sufi---

You cannot be so intolerant and still call yourself Sufi. What happened to your democratic/pluralistic/liberal credentials?

yeah, lets all become atheists, mock religion, and hypocritically call ourselves sufi like some idiot hipsters.

[abassinafghan]

you can kick the majority of them into the trash can , i never met an iranian with one exception , which i can respect .

[TolloAfghanSpinDai]

I think 90% of Iranians act like Sunni muslims, like it's impossible for everyone to become Shia, that's because the Safavid guy confiscated all of the sunni books out of Iran, so Today, well Iranians are forced to be religous, but during Mohammad Pahlavi's reign, Iran was being pretty secular however most iranians could only find Shia islam teachings. And ofcourse, Mir Wais Hotak didn't re-convert Iran back to Sunni, nor did any other Iranian ruler that followed by. BTW Armenia and Georgia have been annexed by Iran several times but have remained Christian :/

[TolloAfghanSpinDai]

They say people from Herat, and Iranians on the Khorasan provinces are culturally identical, because Herat used to be part of Iran but was Annexed by Afghanstan, the same way how Afghans failed in recapturing Peshawar from the Sikhs(followed by British raj, then Pakistan), Iranians failed to recapture Herat. What are the Shia-Sunni proportions in Herat? Or Eastern/Khorasan Iran?

Also, Iranian administered Balochistan have anti-Shia sentiments.

[badmash_khel]

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I think Herat would be 30-40% shia and 60-70% sunni. Thats because there are large number of Alizai and nurzais pashtuns in the rural areas. Nader Afshar settled many Durrani pashtuns in and around Herat. Herat city however is has more shia I think maybe upto 50%. There has been influx of Hazaras into Herat since they were deported from Iran so it is changing slightly.

[Kushan Prince]

They say people from Herat, and Iranians on the Khorasan provinces are culturally identical, because Herat used to be part of Iran but was Annexed by Afghanstan, the same way how Afghans failed in recapturing Peshawar from the Sikhs(followed by British raj, then Pakistan), Iranians failed to recapture Herat. What are the Shia-Sunni proportions in Herat? Or Eastern/Khorasan Iran?

Also, Iranian administered Balochistan have anti-Shia sentiments.

The Pashtuns didn't fail getting Peshawar from the Sikhs. Actually the emir of Afghanistan signed a deal with the British which created the Durand line. But you already knew that.