Like thieves who cry "thief!" in the middle of the night to confuse those in pursuit so they can escape, PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang hinted that those who are accusing Iran of having less than honourable motivation for its involvement in Syria to be just as deceptive.

He opined that the Shiite-dominated state does not seem to pose a threat to the Sunnis.

"As far as I know, Iran did not say that it wants to export its Shiite Islamic Revolution. Iran only wants to invite neighbouring Arab states to unite against Israel and free themselves from foreign powers," he said in a statement.

Hadi argued, that despite concurrently existing for hundreds of years, the Shiite school of thought never eclipsed the rise of Sunni Islam.

He also noted that while the difference between the two groups of Muslims were at once almost academic, it has been fanned like flames that threatened to devour the faith and its adherents, pitting one group against the other as if they are from different religions.

The PAS president related that Iran and Syria are also the only two Middle East countries to have openly supported the fight to free Palestine from Israeli occupation.

And Syria is now beset by attackers, who he claimed are instigated by the West, colluding with Arab states and the Zionist regime.

Iran, argued Hadi, just wants to help Syria free itself.

He reminded all of the fate of the once Muslim enclave in Europe, Andalusia, in the south of Spain.

Its capitulation to the Christian attackers was put off by at least two decades because the local rulers asked help from Morocco, though they were loathe to do so at first, worried that Morocco's King Ibnu Abbad will use his armies to conquer their weakened states instead.