A hypocrite kind of politician

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"A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation."
Adlai E. Stevenson​

Back in May 20 2017 American president Trump made his first foreign trip after election to the Saudi Arabia. Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud greeted Trump at the airport on the red carpet. As King Salman presents President Donald Trump with the Collar of Abdulaziz Al Saud Medal at the Royal Court in Riyadh they performed "Ardah" (the traditional men's sword dance) and danced together ..

On the business side, the trip resulted in signing deals worth US$380 billion, of which US$110 billion accounts for Saudi military purchases from the US.

Beside all the fun Trump made a speech “Islam speech” which was more about the Islamic Republic than anything else and was not actually a speech about Islam nor did it mention the many critical issues of human rights, suppression of opposition groups and women’s freedoms in some Muslim societies his disinterest in the human-rights abuses of those attending the Saudi king's anti-Iranian conference instead, it conferred a sense of legitimacy to oppressive regimes such as Saudi Arabia, further endangering democratic rights and pluralism.
Trump in his remarks in Saudi Arabia , he accused Iran of essentially being the most malevolent force on the planet — the irony of speaking those words in the ideological birthplace of al Qaeda and the Islamic State was apparently lost on his speechwriters.

Now the truth emerges: how the US fuelled the rise of Isis in Syria and Iraq
The sectarian terror group won’t be defeated by the western states that incubated it in the first place

A revealing light on how we got here has now been shone by a recently declassified secret US intelligence report, written in August 2012, which uncannily predicts – and effectively welcomes – the prospect of a “Salafist principality” in eastern Syria and an al-Qaida-controlled Islamic state in Syria and Iraq. In stark contrast to western claims at the time, the Defense Intelligence Agency document identifies al-Qaida in Iraq (which became Isis) and fellow Salafists as the “major forces driving the insurgency in Syria” – and states that “western countries, the Gulf states and Turkey” were supporting the opposition’s efforts to take control of eastern Syria.
Which is pretty well exactly what happened two years later. The report isn’t a policy document. It’s heavily redacted and there are ambiguities in the language. But the implications are clear enough. A year into the Syrian rebellion, the US and its allies weren’t only supporting and arming an opposition they knew to be dominated by extreme sectarian groups; they were prepared to countenance the creation of some sort of “Islamic state” – despite the “grave danger” to Iraq’s unity – as a Sunni buffer to weaken Syria.
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Trump was also accompanied by the US former secretary of state:

Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson had some advice on Saturday for Iran’s newly re-elected president. The Trump administration, he said, hopes Tehran “restores the rights of Iranians to freedom of speech, to freedom of organization, so that Iranians can live the life that they deserve.”

As he said that at a news conference, Mr. Tillerson was standing next to the Saudi foreign minister, Adel al-Jubeir, who represents a government that does not guarantee free speech or many other rights. When Mr. Tillerson turned to leave, a reporter asked if he had anything to say about human rights in Saudi Arabia. The secretary departed without answering.​

In response to Trump speech Iran foreign minister Javad Zarif twitted:

Also back in May 30 2017 in Briefing on the President's Trip to the Middle East a high-ranking State Department official appeared to become flustered after he was questioned about the U.S.' support for Saudi Arabia, despite the oil-rich kingdom's rejection of democratic ideals.

Stuart Jones, who was appointed as U.S. Ambassador to Iraq by former President Barack Obama in 2014 before assuming the title of assistant secretary of state for near eastern affairs in January, took a long, silent pause after an Agence France-Presse reporter asked the official how President Donald Trump could criticize Iran's democracy, while standing next to Saudi Arabian officials. Saudi Arabia is an absolute monarchy, where every position of power is appointed by either the king or other members of the Al Saud royal family from which the nation derives its name. Trump recently visited Saudi Arabia, a close ally of the U.S., and took the opportunity to deeply criticize the two nations' mutual foe, Iran, and its commitment to democracy weeks after it held its presidential election.

Put all these next to Trump previous statements about Saudi Arabia:


Now in 2018 Egypt another American ally in the region has held a presidential election and base on official results showed on Monday Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has been re-elected with 97 percent of votes. Turnout was 41 percent despite efforts to get as many Egyptians as possible to polling stations during last week's vote, while the election commission said the vote was held according to the "highest international standards of integrity and transparency" as it read out the results in a televised announcement.
Mr Sisi had been virtually guaranteed a landslide win, the election featured only one other candidate , himself an ardent Sisi supporter (Mousa Mostafa Mousa leads the Ghad party, which had endorsed Sisi for a second term and even organized events to help nominate the former military commander as recently as last week), after all serious opposition contenders halted their campaigns in January. The main challenger was arrested and his campaign manager beaten up, while other presidential hopefuls pulled out, citing intimidation.

Screenshots of a Facebook page reportedly belonging to Mousa circulated in the Egyptian press on Monday, showing his personal support for Sisi’s candidacy.



And here we have the American congress delegation that came to observe the Egyptian elections:

And here his Excellency president of the USA Donald John Trump congratulating reelected president of Egypt Al Sisi:

And also department of State:

To sum up even if 73% of Iranian participated in an election ,a high-turned that has been repeated in the past 4 decades since Islamic revolution in Iran, which in majority of them (57%) vote to their favored candidates after weeks of presidential debates, campaign rallies in different streets , meetings at universities and social medias it would be considered as an absolute sham and Iran should be isolated and sanctioned but when it comes to a country like Saudi Arabia that people is ruled by an absolute monarchy that does not meaningfully share power and yet to see a single ballot box and without any constitution and a dynasty has taken the entire country as a family business or Egypt that president (a general) comes to the power through coup and reelect himself again in one candidate election and no matter how you respect human right and democracy you could receive all fancy weapons you want plus political and economical support.