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February 13, 2015       Share:    

Source: http://nypost.com/2015/02/08/how-making-nice-with-tehran-boosts-isis/

How Making Nice with Tehran Boosts ISIS

(New York Post) Ahmad El Assaad - Take it from me, a leader of a Lebanese political party and a Shia Muslim: The supposedly Shiite regime in Iran is a bully, and repeated failures to stand up to it play into the hands of Sunni extremists. Sunnis across the Middle East feel bullied by Tehran's increasingly dominant role in the region, and angry as the world remains on the sidelines. One main reason ISIS has grown so powerful is that it represents a way for Sunni Arabs to regain their pride in response to the ever-increasing Shia dominance led by the regime in Iran.

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