Again a strategy of provocation -- which plays on an underlying reality : that Iraq sits on the critical sectarian fault line of the Middle East and that a conflict there gains powerful momentum from the involvement of neighboring states , with Iran strongly supporting the Shia and with Saudi Arabia , Kuwait , Jordan and Syria strongly sympathetic to the Sunnis .
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