Written by Richard Kane   

Iran is Threatened and Challenges ISSI in ways the US needs to Learn From

Iran and Shiites in general have been under constant frequently violent pressure from the Sunni Muslim Saudi King and violent Sunni king including ISIS. "Everyone must obey God's messengers". Walhabiism traditionally believe it is the obligation of humankind to obey what they believe to be God's messenger the King of Saudi Arabia. As the years go by, more and more people enter Saudi Arabia without bowing down to the king, especially shocked at half-naked US soldiers prancing around the most sacred holy sites. Extreme Wahhabism ie ISIS and al Qaeda believes that the reason the king has less and less in their mind's God given authority is because the king compromises especially with the US and Israel and thus must be replaced by a real king and is thus fighting a Cold War style war with the Saudi King.

In the Cold War, the US and the USSR fought using the Third World as a battlefield never firing directly at each other. Likewise ISIS and al Qaeda use others in their attack on Saudi Royalty instead of assassinating members of Saudi royalty with an underpants or rectum bomb with the exception of Prince Mohammed Bin Nayef who was determined to stop al Al Qaeda in 2009 until injured when a terrorist blew himself with a a.h. bomb. After this Saudi royalty tiptoed around in fighting al Qaeda and then ISIS,

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The Saudi King is pushing capital punishment against anyone persuading someone not to be a Sunny Muslim and other extreme measures to try to prove to ISSI and al Qaeda followers that he is tougher against infidels than they think. And is thus somewhat acquiescing to the extremist world al Qaeda and ISSI wants.

In the past Wahhabi extremists killed off or chased out of the Sunni countries all of the Bahi'a Muslims and the most extreme have bombed Shiite religious sites during prayers and other ways forcing as many as possible to obey Wahabeeism. Today the Saudis are conducting a bloodbath in Yemen to keep a Sunni government in charge.

Iran by aiding Arafat, Hamas and Hezbollah made it safe for a Sunni and Shiite mixed couples to raise their children Shiite or mixed without being punished in areas Hamas and Hezbollah control and for the time being is not developing nukes because Saudi Arabia has an agreement to buy Pakistani nukes the moment Iran ever gets one.

Iran will not nuke Israel, if it gets them and will not nuke Saudi Arabia out of the phobia of all Muslims not to ever destroy Mecca. However Iran could in an extreme circumstances have a nuke exchange with Pakistan or others in the Sunni world.

What Israel secretly hates about the nuke agreement with Iran is that it will give Iran more freedom to send more aid to Hamas and Hezbollah and buy more friendship with Sunni dissidents everywhere - thus finally making Shiite Muslims safe from Sunni pressure in more areas of of the Sunni Muslim controlled Muslim world.

If the US continues to boycott of Iran despite the treaty because of a possible Congressional veto means that the rest of the world will trade with Iran while the US looses trade and the average American gets poorer. US only boycotts means more Americans out of work and a less orderly more dangerous world.

Meanwhile right-wing lobbyists, and Congress-people, please stop giving into the polarized world ISSI and Al Qaeda are demanding in the name of fighting ISIS and Al Qaeda.

Most Americans don't pay close attention to overseas issues, if knowledgeable people change this, the treaty will pass by a landslide. Despite the rush it is important to take the time to educate ourselves and those we are trying to convince that this agreement with Iran is important to the US and the wold's future. Not just trying to make better pro-treaty sound bites.