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Examples
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And following that, you could explain to Senator McCain the difference between Sh'ia and Sunni Muslims.
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It methodically leads from U.S. failures, which predict a U.S. loss of influence, which Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claims will create a political vacuum, which is filled by oil rich Iran and very oil rich Saudi Arabia, which merits a repair of the Sunni and Sh'ia divide and which leads to Middle East peace and stability.
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Recognition of the rights of the Sh'ia will diminish the Sunni/Sh'ia divide.
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This depiction disguises government corruption, reinforces Sunni domination and exaggerates a Sunni/Sh'ia divide that seeks amelioration.
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Major problems exist between Iran and the Arab states territorial disputes, threats of closing the Straits of Hormuz, Arab states 'alliances with the United States, claims that Iran supports a Sh'ia uprising in Bahrain, and the Sh'ia/Sunni divide.
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The Sunni/Sh'ia divide shrunk slightly with an arrangement between Hezbollah and Salafists, belligerent foes in Lebanon.
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The Sunni/Sh'ia divide, portrayed as a religious conflict, is actually an economic conflict.
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History shows that the former nation fears a Sunni dominated government at its border, and for good reasons; these include a possible reawakening of former disputes between Iraq and Iran that led to war, an adjacent space for Iranian dissidents to operate, and the natural tendency to co-opt Iran into Iraq's ethnic disputes in order to protect the Sh'ia.
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Hypocrisy Support of autocratic monarchies in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf State nations has strengthened these regimes and delayed them from extending sufficient freedoms to their populations, including Sh'ia.
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The latter ethnicity is important because U.S. proclamations of freedom of religion and minority rights, except for Iraq, are rarely applied to the Sh'ia just the opposite - the victimized and mostly powerless Sh'ia, who have been attacked by Sunnis from India to Saudi Arabia, are constantly portrayed as aggressive, terrorist prone and always ready to seize control.
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