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CIA analytic report, "Khobar Bombing: Saudi Shia, Iran, and Usama Bin Ladin All Suspects," CTC 96- 30015, July 5, 1996; DIA analytic report, Defense IntelligenceThreat Review 96-007, July 1996; Intelligence report made available to the Commission.
Iran's 1979 revolution swept a Shia theocracy into power.
(The Shia are dominant in Iran.)
The relationship between al Qaeda and Iran demonstrated that Sunni-Shia divisions did not necessarily pose an insurmountable barrier to cooperation in terrorist operations.
Those who became the Shia held that any leader of the Ummah must be a direct descendant of the Prophet; those who became the Sunni argued that lineal descent was not required if the candidate met other standards of faith and knowledge.