Iran's Power in the Middle East Is Sunni Muslims

The Middle East is divided, as you know, between Shia and Sunni Muslim populations. Saudi Arabia is now the great power that feels it represents the Sunni Muslim population. And Iran, of course, is the great power who represents the Shia Muslim population. So if you think about this in geo-strategic terms, not in moral terms, there's a built-in structural limitation to Iran's power," he says.