An article appeared two weeks ago in this magazine entitled ‘Iran is our natural ally’. Images came to mind of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and their good friend Adolf.
The argument is that Saudi Arabia is the instigator of international Islamist terrorism, not Iran; that Saudi Arabia is a repressive country while Iran is quasi-democratic; that unlike Wahhabis, ‘the Shia have no interest in converting everyone else to their religion’.
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