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Cheney does not believe in close ties between Iran, Al-Qaeda

US Vice President Dick Cheney has said he does not believe there are close relations between Iran and Al-Qaeda, seeming to distance himself from some earlier US administration charges. “I think you’ve got to remember that the Al-Qaeda organization is primarily made up of radical Sunni Islamists, of course, and the Iranian regime is Shia-dominated — Shia. So there’s not a natural fit there,” Cheney said in a telephone interview with the Hugh Hewitt Show, released by the White House. Full Story