‘Sunni-Shiite divide is world’s biggest threat’

Source: Gulf News:

Dubai: Tension between Sunni and Shiite Muslims is the biggest threat to world security, Iran’s foreign minister said in comments published on Monday, accusing Sunni Arab countries of “fanning the flames” of sectarian conflict.

The increasingly sectarian civil war in Syria has drawn in regional powers with Shiite Iran backing President Bashar Al Assad and Sunni Gulf Arab states and mainly Sunni Turkey helping the rebels. The conflict threatens to spill over into countries split between Sunnis and Shiites such as Lebanon and Iraq. The sectarian tension is “the most serious security threat not only to the region but to the world at large”, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif told the BBC.

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  1. This is all ‘hogwash’ or ‘poppycock’ (or whatever is good English). The ‘clash’ between Iran and Saudi Arabia is purely a political power struggle. Did any reader ever meet a Saudi who tried to ‘convert’ a Shiah with arguments and invite him to the ‘Sunni-fold’? I have not. And as usual others exploit the religious sentiments.

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