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Originally posted by Spanky
1) Iran will never control the middle east because they are Shiite and the rest of the Middle east is Sunni (except for sixty percent of Iraq and a few scattered pockets in Lebanon, Pakistan and other places). Most of the region would not tolerate these "heretics in charge". Most of the oil is in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, and those countrys will never let Shiite Iran control them.
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That is the conventional wisedom. But as a westerner, I just don't whether that longstanding (and bloody) internal feud will overcome a shared vision of the perfect Islamic state.
I suspect that you are right that Sunni and Shiite will not be able to get along in the end, but they might be able to stomach it for awhile in a united effort against that evil west. I just don't know.
