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#BharatPacific Interviews | Akshobh Giridhardas | US-India on Iran-Saudi relations

The Shia Muslim sect is headed from Iran, while the Sunni Wahabi Muslim communities across the world look to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for religious guidance. At loggerheads for years, the two nations have decided to mend fences and restart diplomatic processes. In all of this, an unlikely peace was brokered by an unlikely peacemaker - China! With no history of interference in either nation, and trade relations, China stepped in to call for a truce. We go through their modern history of turbulence, Salman Rushdie's fatwa and sectarian violence in the Islamic world.