Snake Symbolism Quotes



The only reason this quotation became known is that in 2010, Wikileaks got hold of tens of thousands of secret U. S. State Department diplomatic cables and released it on the Internet. The major Muslim leaders of the Middle East, privately urged the United States to attack Iran to prevent them from developing a nuclear bomb. At the same time, they publicly expressed their love and respect for their fellow Muslims. In actuality the Persians are ethnically very different from the Arabs and have always seen Persia as the natural leader of the Middle East if not more of the world. The Persians have always looked down on the Arabs and the Arabs have resented it. Further, most Iranian Muslims are Shiites and most Arabs Sunni. Fundamentally, they each believe that the other is a true heretic to Islam.