WATCH: ‘Stunning shift’ in alliances as Iran now helps Sunni Taliban August 8, 2017In a stunning shift of loyalties, the Shi’ite Muslim Fundamentalist regime of Iran, which once cheered America’s destruction of its Sunni neighbors in Iraq and Afghanistan, is now sending senior commandos to assist the Sunni Taliban in their jihad against the US-backed Afghani government. AfghanistanIranIraqjihadSaddam HusseinSunniTaliban