Al-Qaeda's number two leader snubs Republican Senator John McCain for claiming that Iran is working with the terrorist organization. During a new online Q&A session, Ayman al-Zawahiri said al-Qaeda wants to see the destruction of Iran - a Shia nation battling the terrorists. "We hope that war 'saps' both Washington and Tehran," he said. "The dispute between America and Iran is a genuine struggle, and the possibility of the US striking Iran is real," al-Zawahiri said. "Whichever country that emerges victorious will find itself in an intensified and fierce battle [with al-Qaeda]," he continued. Al-Zawahiri was referring to recent remarks by the presumptive Republican nominee, Senator John McCain, who has claimed that Iranian operatives are 'taking al-Qaeda into Iran, training them and sending them back' to Iraq. Although McCain's campaign has attempted to whitewash the senator's remarks as a mishap, pundits have questioned McCain's awareness of current world affairs. http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=50238§ionid=3510203