On paper that will be what they both want to do, destroy the Great Satan and all, but while they won’t have an all-out sectarian war, they will not cooperate well with each other. Arabs generally do not cooperate with one another even under ideal situations. Some incarnation of the pre-Islamic duality between Qys and Yemen always set them at each other. Iranians have a totally different mind set, and a much longer attention span, and that to Arabs makes them suspect in and of itself. They will both talk cooperation, do a little cooperation, and then age-old mistrust blossoms again and they’ll be at each other’s throats in “tit for tat” and then they’ll remember the Great Satan again, and patch things over, but it never is really patched over.
The Alawites were much more compatible with Iran, because their religion is less important to them, so politics could come first. But to MB, while they will want very much to give the Great Satan priority, they will be chronically unable to efficiently cooperate with these “heretics,” because they’re obsessed with their version of Mad-Mo-ism above and beyond all practical considerations, such as political alliances and common enemies.
Assad and Ahmadenijad were like Tintin and Captain Haddock. MB and Ahamdenijad will be like Laurel and Hardy or the Three Stooges, as they continue to have Abbott and Costello-style misunderstandings.
Well, Arabs are interesting lot, and varied in attitude.. moslem ones are quite distinct from non-moslem ones.. in my experience..
Am not so much ‘worried’ about MB’s angle on this, more about how the mullahs of Iranian regime & AN (aka Ahmadinejad) would handle this situation - they are a crafty/sly lot.. they’d make a deal with the devil if that suited them..
I still don’t believe Sunnis would give preference to killing “heretics” (incl. in heretics, Shi’ites), over the Great Satan. Sunnis (incl. wahabbis & salafis) have always felt superior to other sects within Islam, because even Shi’ites, as the 2nd largest sect in Islam, are very much limited in numbers and have always been the underdogs - easy to control by Sunnis, in the moslem world, and many ways, as it has already been done for absolutely decades..
The Great Satan (Kafirs), however, is very much the Super-Power, and has the Means in many ways, which both the Sunnis & the Shi’ites would like to bring down gradually & completely, or, at least, to bring down a peg or two, in the interim. I guess it could come down to a choice between the (Kafirs) and (Heretics) for the Sunnis. But, at least the latter shares the basics & essentials of Islamic tenets with Sunnis, UNlike the Kafirs...
I like your analogy about Tintin and Captain Haddock.. LOL
About “Ahmadenijad”... I have to teach you Persian language one day, but only if you teach me Hebrew..
Here is a lesson, in Iran & outside many call Ahmadi-nejad, AN -— AN in Persian means “turd”. ‘Course it can also be an abbreviation or acronym for “A”hamdi-”N”ejad.