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| Flirting with Doha, Tehran Calls to ‘Reject Tension’ |
| 2017-06-07 |
| [Asharq al-Aswat] Following Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , UAE, Bahrain and Egypt announced severing ties with Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... , Iran’s foreign ministry front man, Bahram Ghasemi, called on Gulf states to "renounce tension through dialogue." Other Tehran officials tried to build bridges with Doha by attacking countries that joined the boycott. Former diplomats have warned their government of the consequences of "investing the Qatar’s card in Gulf tensions." "The era of cutting diplomatic ties and closing borders ... is not a way to resolve crisis," Hamid Aboutalebi, deputy chief of staff of Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani, tweeted on Monday. Aboutalebi reiterated his country’s disdain and criticism of the Arab-Islamic-US summit held in Riyadh in May, unleashing a wave of harsh criticism towards each of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE and Bahrain. Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Monday urged Qatar and neighboring Gulf Arab countries that have severed diplomatic ties with it to engage in dialogue to resolve their dispute. "Neighbors are permanent- geography can’t be changed. Coercion is never the solution. Dialogue is imperative," Zarif tweeted. According to AFP, foreign ministry front man Ghasemi said in a statement that a solution to the differences between Qatar and its three Gulf neighbors "is only possible through political and peaceful methods and dialogue between the parties". "Using sanctions in today’s integrated world is inefficient, to be condemned and unacceptable," Ghasemi added of Qatar’s neighbors closing all land, sea and air links with it. Mohammad-Ali Abtahi, head of the office of former reformist president Mohammad Khatami, attacked Saudi policy, saying severing relations with Qatar was an "Arab earthquake." He called on Iran to abstain from interfering and that rationale prevails with what concerns Iranian involvement in intra-Gulf affairs. |
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