ramifications of the theory has been a battle with the rebels let's now talk to milly's an expert tariq ali who joins us live from london thanks very much sorry for joining us here on our t.v. while we are seeing she has been a fighters participating in this offensive fire fighting against the rebels most of whom are sunni so what we're actually seeing here obviously in this conflict becoming more sectarian in nature what i think effectively. what this war is now increasingly becoming is a war that is still getting iran and crying to room or iran's only arab ally from the reckoning it's become very clear in the in the weeks sectarianism has been used. sunni versus shia shia versus sunni i mean without assigning blame or responsibility that is what is going on affected really now both in iraq and in syria in iraq you had a situation where the sunnis constituted a minority but ran the previous regime the united states intervened and effectively handed over power to the religious parties of one sort or an over another they then carried out in large ethnic cleansings in bulk and in other cities

coming from qatar or from other countries middle east expert tariq ali believes the recent escalation of sectarian violence in the region is being used by the west target iran. what this war is now increasingly becoming is a war that is still getting iran and trying to rue morgue iran's only arab ally from the reckoning it's become very clear in the way in weeks sectarianism has been used effectively now both in iraq and in syria in iraq you had a situation where the sunnis constituted a minority but ran the previous regime the united states intervened and effectively handed over power to the religious parties of one sort or another over another they then carried out a large ethnic cleansing and we now see the in response to that in syria you had the opposite you had a lot of sunni majority which was government by and the white. regime very closely linked to iran and the arab uprisings that took place destabilize the region further in my opinion you have a minority supporting the syrian government a minority supporting the islamist rebels and the large proportion of the population wai