Iran: Hassan Rouhani condemns 'siege of Qatar'

[HAIDER]

In a phone call with the Qatari Emir, president also says Iran's air space, ground and sea will be open to Doha.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has told the Emir of Qatar that a "siege" imposed on it by four Arab states that recently cut ties with Doha "is not acceptable for us", according to the office of the president's website.

A statement released on Sunday quoted Rouhani as telling Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani in a phone conversation that "Tehran will stand by Qatar's government".

"Iran's air space, ground and sea will be always be open to Qatar as a ... friendly nation," said Rouhani, adding that the cooperation of the two countries will remain "continuous".

"We believe that if there are disagreements among countries of the region, pressure, intimidation, and sanction are not good ways for settle the disagreements," the statement added.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/06/iran-hassan-rouhani-condemns-siege-qatar-170625174347048.html

 

[Saif al-Arab]

My neighbor likes cherries with vanilla ice cream. This is as relevant as what this Hassan Rouhani has to say about an internal GCC/Arab matter that he is not a part of.

 

[HAIDER]

My neighbor likes cherries with vanilla ice cream. This is as relevant as what this toll has to say about an internal GCC/Arab matter that he is not a part of.

Well , Aljazeera is all out war against GCC boys. Time for Saudi to mobilize armed forces and take over the Qatar.

 

[Saif al-Arab]

Well , Aljazeera is all out war against GCC boys. Time for Saudi to mobilize armed forces and take over the Qatar.

This diplomatic row (disagreements have occurred since 1995 - most recently they came to light in 2014 where Qatar made some promises to all GCC members but later broke them despite being a part of the GCC) that began a few weeks ago, will be solved peacefully. An invasion is very much a possibility but only in theory. If the US does not give a green light such a thing will never happen. Qatar welcomed the largest US base in the Muslim world for this exact reason. As a security guarantee.

Anyway I believe that the current Qatari leadership will eventually realize that the situation that they are in currently is not foreseeable on the long run and I am convinced that they will agree to many of those supposed demands but try not to admit it in public. Some kind of consensus will be found.

In a worst case scenario 300.000 big Qatar (natives) will be thrown out of the GCC and then they can do whatever they want to do until the gas runs out and they will come back begging the GCC to welcome them as their native population is not able to run their country on their own. Their worst fear currently is for most of the expats (Arab as non-Arab) to leave before 2022 FIFA World Cup. That would paralyze Qatar.

 

[HAIDER]

This diplomatic row (disagreements have occurred since 1995 - most recently they came to light in 2014 where Qatar made some promises to all GCC members but later broke them despite being a part of the GCC) that began a few weeks ago, will be solved peacefully. An invasion is very much a possibility but only in theory. If the US does not give a green light such a thing will never happen. Qatar welcomed the largest US base in the Muslim world for this exact reason. As a security guarantee.

Anyway I believe that the current Qatari leadership will eventually realize that the situation that they are in currently is not foreseeable on the long run and I am convinced that they will agree to many of those supposed demands but try not to admit it in public. Some kind of consensus will be found.

In a worst case scenario 300.000 big Qatar (natives) will be thrown out of the GCC and then they can do whatever they want to do until the gas runs out and they will come back begging the GCC to welcome them as their native population is not able to run their country on their own. Their worst fear currently is for most of the expats (Arab as non-Arab) to leave before 2022 FIFA World Cup. That would paralyze Qatar.

Anyway I don't even look at Qatar as a country but as a tiny family fiefdom where everyone is family basically and a city state (as over 90% of the population lives in Doha alone). It's such a joke for Qatar to try and pretend that they have any independent policy when their size, tiny population etc. will always limit them. Why did they waste all that money on Al-Jazeera and trying to compete with the real historical and regional powers? They should have used that money on improving the infrastructure further, hosting sports tournaments, cultural events, buying art, investing in education, culture and for instance investing in desertification, seawater desalination etc.

Nodoubt , some invisible powers on Qatari back ...Its not just Saudi Qatari crisis its more then this.

 

[Saif al-Arab]

Nodoubt , some invisible powers on Qatari back ...Its not just Saudi Qatari crisis its more then this.

Anyway I don't even look at Qatar as a country but as a tiny family fiefdom where everyone is family basically and a city state (as over 90% of the population lives in Doha alone). It's such a joke for Qatar to try and pretend that they have any independent policy when their size, tiny population etc. will always limit them. Why did they waste all that money on Al-Jazeera and trying to compete with the real historical and regional powers? They should have used that money on improving the infrastructure further, hosting sports tournaments, cultural events, buying art, investing in education, culture and for instance investing in desertification, seawater desalination, education, healthcare etc. Used that money better. After all they are under the protection of the US. KSA/GCC is also there and will defend Qatar from attacks from the outside. As if anyone is planning to attack a country that hosts the largest US base in the region. Just a ridiculous situation IMO.

It's just the ego of rulers (Al-Thani family) and ridiculous delusions of grandeur. I thought that it would be enough for them to buy the most expensive pieces of art in the world or large famous hotels, buildings, shopping centers in London (Harrods), Paris (Concorde Lafayette) or the hotels, apartments, land etc. bought in Southern France.

In general that is the problem with absolute rule and a lack of accountability. The average Qatari does not question such decisions because they are all living like land lords. One big family. Similarly in KSA people do not question moronic policies or money wasted on non-important things (in the bigger picture) as most people live a good life. They do in fact but not as much as they should.

I believe in a enlightened meritocracy as a system of governing countries and people. Most people don't know what is the best for them. Let experts in all fields decide what is the best for the country and nation as a whole. After all you can't satisfy everyone in neither a democracy or autocracy. A successful and enlightened meritocracy will satisfy most people as long as a mechanism of accountability (just like in non-corrupt democracies) exists.

 

[T-Rex]

Anyway I don't even look at Qatar as a country but as a tiny family fiefdom where everyone is family basically and a city state

But you do see UAE as a country right? Don't worry your view of Qatar will change in due course.

Well , Aljazeera is all out war against GCC boys. Time for Saudi to mobilize armed forces and take over the Qatar.

They haven't yet conquered the ragtag Houthis yet and you want them to take over Qatar.

 

[BATMAN]

@Arabi @PaklovesTurkiye
Since when and how Qatar is besieged? and why Pakistani Shia suddenly got concerned about Qatari royals, just last winter same members are preaching to attack visiting Qatari royals!
Hyperiocracy.. I mean Hypocrisy at its best!

 

[Hyperion]

Saudi mouth piece / Zia ul haq kee bichri aulad. Go eat something truly Pakistani so that maybe one Pakistani cell of your shameless foreign existence can re-ignite Patriotism in you. Now I don't know exactly the dish that I should recommend to you, maybe other members can help out here.......

@Arabi @PaklovesTurkiye
Since when and how Qatar is besieged? and why Pakistani Shia suddenly got concerned about Qatari royals, just last winter same members are preaching to attack visiting Qatari royals!
Hyperiocracy.. I mean Hypocrisy at its best!

 

[BATMAN]

koi sharam hoti hei koi haya hoti hei:

https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/conv...ird-attacked-in-southwestern-pakistan.472856/

 

[Jaanbaz]

Here comes the sectarian moron @BATMAN

 

[Timur]

Anyway I don't even look at Qatar as a country but as a tiny family fiefdom where everyone is family basically and a city state (as over 90% of the population lives in Doha alone). It's such a joke for Qatar to try and pretend that they have any independent policy when their size, tiny population etc. will always limit them. Why did they waste all that money on Al-Jazeera and trying to compete with the real historical and regional powers? They should have used that money on improving the infrastructure further, hosting sports tournaments, cultural events, buying art, investing in education, culture and for instance investing in desertification, seawater desalination, education, healthcare etc. Used that money better. After all they are under the protection of the US. KSA/GCC is also there and will defend Qatar from attacks from the outside. As if anyone is planning to attack a country that hosts the largest US base in the region. Just a ridiculous situation IMO.

It's just the ego of rulers (Al-Thani family) and ridiculous delusions of grandeur. I thought that it would be enough for them to buy the most expensive pieces of art in the world or large famous hotels, buildings, shopping centers in London (Harrods), Paris (Concorde Lafayette) or the hotels, apartments, land etc. bought in Southern France.

In general that is the problem with absolute rule and a lack of accountability. The average Qatari does not question such decisions because they are all living like land lords. One big family. Similarly in KSA people do not question moronic policies or money wasted on non-important things (in the bigger picture) as most people live a good life. They do in fact but not as much as they should.

I believe in a enlightened meritocracy as a system of governing countries and people. Most people don't know what is the best for them. Let experts in all fields decide what is the best for the country and nation as a whole. After all you can't satisfy everyone in neither a democracy or autocracy. A successful and enlightened meritocracy will satisfy most people as long as a mechanism of accountability (just like in non-corrupt democracies) exists.

I dont agree, tell me for what are you wasting 300 billion when you have your awvliyah the US ? if they (qatar) would not have any arms they would have nothing to say and would be annexed by the self declared big "brother" or the secular UAE

 

[sohail.ishaque]

This diplomatic row (disagreements have occurred since 1995 - most recently they came to light in 2014 where Qatar made some promises to all GCC members but later broke them despite being a part of the GCC) that began a few weeks ago, will be solved peacefully. An invasion is very much a possibility but only in theory. If the US does not give a green light such a thing will never happen. Qatar welcomed the largest US base in the Muslim world for this exact reason. As a security guarantee.

Anyway I believe that the current Qatari leadership will eventually realize that the situation that they are in currently is not foreseeable on the long run and I am convinced that they will agree to many of those supposed demands but try not to admit it in public. Some kind of consensus will be found.

In a worst case scenario 300.000 big Qatar (natives) will be thrown out of the GCC and then they can do whatever they want to do until the gas runs out and they will come back begging the GCC to welcome them as their native population is not able to run their country on their own. Their worst fear currently is for most of the expats (Arab as non-Arab) to leave before 2022 FIFA World Cup. That would paralyze Qatar.

so basically its USA that is operating ur kingdom ?

 

[Saif al-Arab]

I dont agree, tell me for what are you wasting 300 billion when you have your awvliyah the US ? if they (qatar) would not have any arms they would have nothing to say and would be annexed by the self declared big "brother" or the secular UAE

What 300 billion? You mean 110 billion (old deal now renewed) and 200 billion mutual business deal that has nothing to do with military purchases and where investments in KSA and the US will occur?

I can ask you the same question. Why is Turkey buying any weapons when she has the protection of NATO (USA) and hosts a US/NATO base moreover? Why did Turkey become a NATO member if not for fearing that the USSR would invade it?

You don't understand it. Both KSA and Turkey are regional powers. They are important countries.

Qatar in comparison is a small state with a native population of 320.000 people! There are 9 times as many expats as locals. Without the expats (Arab and non-Arab) Qatar would collapse tomorrow. Over 90% of the population lives in one single city (Doha).

Why is Qatar wasting billions of dollars on impossible projects just because the Al-Thani's are not satisfied with buying the most expensive art in the world, hotels in the West etc.?

Why don't they realize that they are a part of the GCC and that their policy is harmful for the GCC? What have they been hiding since 1995?

To tell you honestly, Qatar was part of empires, kingdoms, sultanates, emirates, sheikdoms, imamates native to modern-day KSA (Arabia) and ruled by people from modern-day KSA during 98% of the pre-Islamic and Islamic age. We are talking about millennia of common history.

The Al-Thani family themselves are recent migrants from Najd. 90% of all native Qataris are from KSA originally. The rest from Yemen.

Can you name me a single country in the world the size of Qatar that tries to have such delusions of grandeur? What don't they understand? They can't survive on their own and need 9 times the number of expats as locals just to survive. As I wrote and mark my words, once the gas runs out (when that happens KSA will be a fully industrialized country and economy with a huge economy and large population) they will come back begging to become a part of KSA because the people won't accept Al-Thani rule if their luxury lifestyle is gone.

Anyway also understand that there are zero problems between the average Saudi Arabian and Qatari. We don't look at each other as foreigners but rather the opposite. What some of us, not all of us, disagree with, is the current policy (in fact this dates back to 1995) policy of Qatar which despite warnings, mediation, talk etc. has not really improved from an GCC viewpoint. Tolerating such a member on the long run unchanged is not feasible.

so basically its USA that is operating ur kingdom ?

Is the US operating your country since you won't attack Qatar either? Is it not common sense that it would be suicidal for any country in the world (maybe outside of China) to invade a small country that is home to one of the largest US military bases in the world (10.000 + soldiers) just because you want to? You think that the Americans would accept it? I don't have any delusions thinking that KSA is a bigger military power than (USA) and I am afraid that neither you should in regards to Pakistan.

But you do see UAE as a country right? Don't worry your view of Qatar will change in due course.



They haven't yet conquered the ragtag Houthis yet and you want them to take over Qatar.

UAE is a emirate consisting of 7 emirates. There are almost 10 times as many native Emiratis as Qataris. UAE is geographically many times larger as well. UAE is not pursuing a anti-GCC policy. UAE is not hosting the largest US base in the region or afraid of its brothers to such an extend that they are willing to sign deals with foreigners that have nothing to do with this region and who don't want our best. Who see us rivals. That's just the beginning of it. Qatar hosts dissidents from the GCC yet jails Qataris for writing a harmless poem. Qatar has been playing a double game for far too long and it won't be tolerated. The likes of the Mullah's running to their defense says it all. Nothing more is needed.

Not only that Al-Jazeera Arabic (the real propaganda tool of Qatar - the Al-Jazeera English that you watch is totally different) is basically the official mainstream spokesmen of all the terrorists in the region from Al-Qaeda (when OBL lived), ISIS and numerous others. You are such focused on ISIS (apparently) yet you don't know that the official propaganda toll of Qatar used to call (and still do in some instances) ISIS for a "Sunni resistance". They did that repeatedly when ISIS created havoc in 2014.

I dont agree, tell me for what are you wasting 300 billion when you have your awvliyah the US ? if they (qatar) would not have any arms they would have nothing to say and would be annexed by the self declared big "brother" or the secular UAE

Also why is Erdogan this obsessed about defending Qatar at the expense of much larger business partners and 1000 times more important countries (KSA, UAE, Egypt etc.) if not for personal relations (business and corruption) with the Al-Thani family? Another of his many failed foreign policies?
How do you think that Turkey would react like if a Saudi Arabian or Egyptian military base in Bulgaria, Greece, Armenia, Georgia etc. was built? The Turkish military base in Qatar is tiny and it will never pose a threat for KSA/GCC should an invasion occur but we are talking about messages here and agendas.
Why does Qatar need a Turkish military base when they host the largest US base in the region and are members of the GCC? Or why has Qatar apparently signed a deal that allows Iran to have a military base? What is the Al-Thani leadership afraid of? Their brothers next door or their own people for them to need all those foreign military bases?
They have enough of protection and not only that they have a lot of military gear considering their size. Probably more than any other country in the world of their size. Those are questions that have never been answered. Similarly to the agenda of Al-Jazeera. Last time I saw Qatar is also a monarchy ruled by a family and who don't accept dissent either. Why are they hosting MB members and other dissidents who are barking against their countries of origin etc. while living in a absolute monarchy that is no different? Why this absurd hypocrisy? Are MB members and certain Islamists such dishonest people who are only looking for money and protection? Strange, very strange. Why are Turkish Islamists like you (I have seen you criticizing Turkey many times so I give you that) never criticize Qatar but KSA, UAE and other monarchies of the region? What makes Qatar differently?