“I have no doubt that it would pour fuel on a fire which is already smouldering, the hidden smouldering fire of Sunni-Shi’ite confrontation, and beyond that (it would cause) a chain reaction — I don’t know where it would stop.”
A Western military strike on Iran would be a ‘catastrophe’ that would aggravate dangerous divisions already present in the Muslim world, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday. (source)