It is true that most of the Sunnis are ethnic minorities living near Iran’s borders, but Tehran’s boom town job market has attracted some of them, one million according to that International Religious Freedom Report.
SOURCE: http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2004/35497.htm
Even allowing for exaggeration there must be enough for a mosque. 10%, 15% of the population of Tehran being well over a million people.
SOURCE: Population of greater Tehran is estimated at 14 million
But the issue of Shia Sunni relations in Iran is super sensitive. It’s not just the carnage in Iraq. A Sunni fundamentalist insurgent group in eastern Iran - Jundallah - claims to have killed 400 Iranian soldiers.
SOURCE: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IB24Ak01.html
And it appears they’re getting aid from the US government. It’s not just the Islamist regime that says so. Seymor Hersh a US journalist with good ties to the US military wrote about it in the New Yorker magazine.
SOURCE: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/07/07/080707fa_fact_hersh
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