Al Qaeda in Iran

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Sunni al Qaeda doesn’t have a relationship with Shia Iran, right? ABC reports:

Al Qaeda is a Sunni Muslim group that has a complicated, sometimes tense, relationship with Iran.

The United States has a complicated, sometimes tense, relationship with France, but that doesn’t mean we won’t go over and liberate Paris when the place is overrun with Germans. It is an odd way to describe the relationship, but then the piece makes it sound like Iran and al Qaeda are pretty close–which is an odd case for a mainstream media outlet to make:

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