it plays out in syria, in lebanon, in bay ran. so in a strange way the wonder is it doesn t take longer for this to erupt but now you have open hostility between the leading sunny power, saudi arabia and iran and this is going to complicate the middle east even further if that s even possible. saudi arabia was obviously upset about the nuclear iran deal and any kind of growth or rise of iran on the international stage is of concern to saudi arabia. that s right and saudi arabia views this i think from two prisms. one is strategy, the growth of iran as a regional player and things like that. but the other one is very sectarian. remember, saudi arabia represents is very pure islam in which the shiite are apostates. the saudis be in large destroy any shiite shrine in the country so they are also viewing this as the growth of any kind of shiite
leading sunny power, saudi arabia and iran and this is going to complicate the middle east even further if that s even possible. saudi arabia was obviously upset about the nuclear iran deal and any kind of growth or rise of iran on the international stage is of concern to saudi arabia. that s right and saudi arabia views this i think from two prisms. one is strategy, the growth of iran as a regional player and things like that. but the other one is very sectarian. remember, saudi arabia repres t represents is very pure islam in which the shiite are apostates. the saudis be in large destroy any shiite shrine in the country so they are also viewing this as the growth of any kind of shiite influence in baja rain and syria and iraq and view that as kind
influence of isis using things like facebook and twitter is expanding faster than we expected. the second is how easy it is to get to a place like syria or iraq. it seems like half a world away. remember a decade ago if you wanted to get into one of these terror groups, you had to go even further to a place like western pakistan or somalia. that s one reason you see home europeans go. this combination of how close it is and opportunity to join what they view as a pure life, a chance to practice a pure islam and influence of social media is why we see this explosion in america. what other steps should be taken in minnesota since you heard what the u.s. attorney said. this is a big problem there. the u.s. attorney who is speaking there just now, you know he s leading the white house effort, which is called countering violent extremism and a lot is focused in minnesota
the major iran s foreign spy master and operative is the ground general of this whole campaign. how should we interpret that? his involvement? the iranian involvement? meaning as isis continues too lose territory iran s strength and influence and hasgeminy if iraq do they want to there is a revise by iran islam is the pure islam. iran s goals are simple. they want to control a whole swath of the middle east. they control five capitals now. the u.s. absented himself largely from this campaign and now is starting to get jitters and quite nervous about if the cure might be as bad as the disease if not a little worse so. yet ben wedeman on the ground is saying iraqis are welcoming iranians in terms of that in their involvement? i ve also see video footage