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From the blog of Michael Arizanti at The Times of Israel

It plays out in syria, in lebanon, in bay ran. so in a strange way the wonder is it doesn't take longer for this to erupt but now you have open hostility between the leading sunny power, saudi arabia and iran and this is going to complicate the middle east even further if that's even possible. >> saudi arabia was obviously upset about the nuclear iran deal and any kind of growth or rise of iran on the international stage is of concern to saudi arabia. >> that's right and saudi arabia views this i think from two prisms. one is strategy, the growth of iran as a regional player and things like th...

Influence of isis using things like facebook and twitter is expanding faster than we expected. the second is how easy it is to get to a place like syria or iraq. it seems like half a world away. remember a decade ago if you wanted to get into one of these terror groups, you had to go even further to a place like western pakistan or somalia. that's one reason you see home europeans go. this combination of how close it is and opportunity to join what they view as a pure life, a chance to practice a pure islam and influence of social media is why we see this explosion in america. >> what other st...

The major iran's foreign spy master and operative is the ground general of this whole campaign. >> how should we interpret that? his involvement? the iranian involvement? >> meaning as isis continues too lose territory iran's strength and influence and hasgeminy if iraq -- >> do they want to -- there is a revise by iran islam is the pure islam. iran's goals are simple. they want to control a whole swath of the middle east. they control five capitals now. the u.s. absented himself largely from this campaign and now is starting to get jitters and quite nervous about if the cure might be as bad a...

Caliphate, and the governance and taking the power and how the exercise the power. >> and it is quite clear that the el goals are often trumping the so-called religious ones. so they are going to the museum in iraq, and destroy to a few of the statues to show how islamic they are, and pure islam, you don't have any idol worship, but quietly, they are selling most of the others and they take the hostage hostages, but they want money for them, to make money. >> and yes, there is a lot more that we have to get to, and lot more talk including the rerecruitment. and another major offensive to take ...