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Matt Gaetz: “They're quite Shia.”

Featuring: Matt Gaetz, Republican | Former U.S. House, Florida's 1st District

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The Anchormen Show EP 129 - Primetime Headlines w/ David Pollack

Published | Video Starts at 24:02

If I'm remembering, I always get the Sunnis and Shias mixed up, but I believe the government is Sunni now. Right. In Iran. Or the, the, the, the, the, the. No, no, They're quite Shia. Oh, Shia. Okay. So the opposite. They're very Shia. So the Sunnis want to take control of Iran and have a secular government, and the Shias are the ones that don't have the secular government. (24:02–24:03)

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Asserts that the Iranian government is Shia.

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