• Text smaller   • Text bigger  Ayatollah Khamenei  BEIRUT,
Lebanon – With Syrian President Bashar al-Assad re-elected for
another seven-year term while fighting continues to rage
throughout Syria, there is a serious behind-the-scene effort
under way between Shiite Iran and Sunni Saudi Arabia to find a
resolution.  Lebanese and Syrian sources tell WND, however, it
won’t be easy, given the animosity between Shiites and Sunnis in
a civil war that has been raging since March 2011, resulting in
the killing of more than 160,000 people.  Complicating the
equation has been the rise of Saudi-sponsored Sunni Muslim
militant fighters, many of which are from countries in Central
Asia, the Middle East, North Africa and even from Europe and the
United States.  In addition, Western powers, particularly the
United States, Turkey and a number of the Gulf Arab countries,
continue to finance and provide weapons to the foreign fighters.
It all has led to the spawning of new, more dangerous Muslim
militant groups such the Islam