Muslims prepare to break their fast and pray sunset prayers during the fasting month of Ramadan, at the Grand Mosque in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Thursday, June 22.
The Islamic State claimed responsibility for two attacks that claimed at least 12 lives in Iran on June 7. With this, the flaring tensions between Sunnis and Shias were once again in the news.
Iran is a Shia Muslim majority state often in tension with Sunni states and extremist groups like the Islamic State or al-Qaeda.
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