yousuf raza gilani is sunni syed,his ancestors family came from iran, and in iran there are sunni syed's, i can confirm this as i am a relative and also a sunni syed.,
90% shia and rest sunni.
Shiates rule the government of Iran.
OF course not, Iran is a shia country...
The majority of Persians (today, that's Iran and Iraq) are Shia Muslims.
The major religions of Iran are Shia Muslim 89%, Sunni Muslim 9%, Zoroastrian and Baha'i around 1% each. If you consider Shia and Sunni as separate religions, the answer to your question is Sunni Islam; if not, the answer would be Zoroastrianism and Baha'i.
Iran and Iraq consist of primarily Muslims adhering to the Shiite (or Shia) sect of the Islamic religion. In Iran, about 90% of people are Shia (the rest being Sunni), and in Iraq, about 55% are Shia, and 45% are Sunni (with ethnic Kurds being 15% Sunnis of total population of Iraq).
The countries where there are more Shia than Sunni and where sunni muslims are persecuted for their beliefs are mainly Iran and Iraq, where the shiia population is over 90%
The official religion or race of Iran is shia of course, where over 85% of the population is shia. While the rest are sunnis.
In Iran 85-90% of people are Shia Muslims and the rest are sunni. a small minority are not Muslims.
Sunni
Mostly Shia Muslim but also other religions like christians Sunni muslims