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Originally Posted by Free Ben Hur!
Meanwhile Iran sits back and drinks it all in, laughing at the fact that the US have done all the heavy lifting for them.
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Iran and the US actually have shared interested in opposing ISIS and IIRC they have had mutual discussions about this. ISIS as an extremist Sunni force is against Iran as much as it is against the US. Their main opponents/victims in Iraq and Syria have been Shi'te muslims (of all sects) which constitute the majority of Iran. Iran has been vilified in rhetoric by ISIS leaders and if ISIS manages to establish their foothold, the conflict will spill over into Iran. Assad's sect is mainly Allawite Shi'tes and the controlling/government groups in Iraq were also Shi'te groups because of how the US structured it to keep out Saddam's sect/faction (mostly Sunnis). They have been basically told by their religious leaders that the Shi'tes are not even true Muslims and to kill them outright. It's ethnic cleansing.