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Iran is caught in a Persian paradox. As a fanatical Shiite Muslim regime, the ruling mullahs in Tehran are watching anxiously as an equally fanatical Sunni Muslim terrorist army threatens to overthrow Iran’s Shiite ally in Iraq. However, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, which has put the Iraqi army on the run, is the most effective and deadliest Islamist group today.

As far as Iran is concerned in that sense, the ISIS is doing Allah’s work as it kills the enemies of Islam, such as Christians and apostates from their Sunni sect, which — unfortunately for Iran — includes Shiites.

The founder of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) was killed by allied forces in Iraq. He was succeeded by a shadowy figure whose nom de guerre is Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. His alias is the name of the first caliph following the death of Muhammed, Abu Bakr. After expanding ISIS activities into Syria, al-Baghdadi was ordered to return to Iraq by the al-Qaeda leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and leave the Syrian theater of operations to another al-Qaeda subsidiary, the al-Nusra Front. Al-Baghdadi refused and broke with Zawahiri.

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