‘Rifts among Muslims benefit US, Zionist regime’

Iran’s Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi has warned that the United States and Zionist regime are the sole beneficiaries of sectarian division in the Muslim world.

According to Press TV, in a Wednesday interview, Vahidi condemned the recent killing of four Shia Muslims by Takfiri extremists in Egypt, noting, “The US and the occupying regime of al-Quds are the only parties which take advantage of rifts between different Islamic denominations.”
On Sunday, a group of Takfiri extremists attacked the house of Shia cleric Sheikh Hassan Shehata in a village near Cairo in Giza Province.
The cleric and three of his followers were murdered after the house was surrounded by hundreds of people vowing to martyr them for being Shias.
The Iranian defense minister described Shias and Sunnis as the “two wings of Islam,” and pointed out, “The Shia and Sunni must stand together, and undoubtedly the enemies’ plots aimed at dividing them will never come to fruition.”
Vahidi stated that the majority of Muslim scholars, including the sheikh of Egypt’s al-Azhar University, have condemned this crime and this is indicative of the horrendous nature of this action.