Arab boycott reveals the secrets of the terrorist alliance between Qatar and Iran
In June 2017, the Arab boycott of Qatar, in support
of terrorism, revealed the strong relations between the Hamdin regime and the
regime of the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in Iran, by opening the doors of Doha
to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.
Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain announced
the severing of diplomatic relations with Qatar on June 5, 2017, due to its
support for terrorism. Qatar rushed to embrace Iran and Turkey, which for
decades pose a threat lurking in the Gulf region in particular and the Arab
region in general within the expansion ambitions governed by expansionist
ambitions and ideological agendas.
And the Qatari moves in the region, since the
discovery of its agenda following the announcement of a boycott by the Arab
countries calling for combating terrorism, indicate the depth of relations with
Iran and its militias.
With the beginning of the Gulf crisis, Iran opened
its airspace to aircraft crossing to and from Qatar, and prepared its seaports
- especially Bushehr Port - in order to restore commercial relations with Qatar
to normal.
For its part, Qatar opened its maritime borders to
the Iranian border guards to move freely from any restrictions, after the
Hamdine and Faghih states signed a border memorandum of understanding between
them, August 2019.
Also, Qatar, through Abdulaziz Al-Muhannadi, head of
the Qatari Coast Security Department, also announced the launch of a port for
Iranian ships, in addition to providing financial services to Iranian merchants
inside its territories despite the US sanctions imposed on Tehran.
Qatar granted a military presence to the Iranian
Revolutionary Guard and opened the country to Iranian intelligence, and in
December 2019, the commander of the navy in the Iranian army, Hussein Khanzadi,
discussed with his Qatari counterpart the renewal of military understandings
between the two countries, in a clear indication of the depth of security and
military cooperation between Doha and Tehran despite threats The recent
security of the neighboring countries.
The Fars News Agency, which is speaking for the
Iranian Revolutionary Guards, stated that the meeting included a Qatari welcome
for the presence of Iranian military naval vessels in Doha ports.
As well as inviting Qatari officers to visit the
Command and Staff University of the Iranian army "Davos", in addition
to taking advantage of what it described as Iran's high military training
capabilities, as she put it.
The Gulf and Arab watchers do not forget what the
Qatari Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Sultan bin Saad Al-Muraikhi, said
in the opening of the works of the regular 148th session of the Arab League
Council, at the level of foreign ministers, in September of 2017, when
Al-Muraikhi provoked the audience by saying that Iran is an honorable country,
in The time when Iran was supporting the Houthi militia whose missiles target
Makkah Al-Mukarramah, while Iranian militias are deployed in Syria, Iraq, and
other areas.
Abdullah Sahrabi also revealed in an interview with
the Iranian "Mashreq News" website, about Iran's penetration into
vital centers and departments within Qatar, saying that "Iran is one of
the biggest influencers in various sectors within Qatar, including technical
and engineering services sectors such as human resources." He also
revealed The ambassador on Qatar brought Iranian pilots to work on Qatar
Airways, saying that "Doha gives appropriate salaries and gives them
modern training and field work."
The Qatari opposition also indicated that the
country's authorities have allowed entry of elements of the Lebanese Hezbollah,
through the arrival of the Lebanese to the country without previous visas, all
in order to integrate with the Iranian Revolutionary Guards in Doha to help the
system. These reports added that the Qatari army is preparing to integrate
these fighters from Hezbollah and the Revolutionary Guards into it, which was
announced by the opposition later in its saying that many Iranians enter Qatar
with Pakistani non-Iranian passports.
The American magazine "Forbes" also talked
about the Revolutionary Guard's desire to participate in its infrastructure
companies, such as the famous "Khatem al-Anbia" company, in the
construction works of the World Cup in 2022 in Qatar.
The magazine
pointed out that Iran, during a phone call between Iranian President Hassan
Rouhani and the Emir of Qatar, Tamim bin Hamad in August 2018, announced her
desire to obtain shares in infrastructure work in the facilities that will
witness the activities of the World Cup for the year 2022, indicating that
companies His country is "fully prepared" to participate in these
construction works.
Tehran is counting on a Qatari role to mediate in
front of the international community and open communication channels, and
Western reports revealed that Rouhani demanded Sheikh Tamim to mediate with
Qatar in Western countries to stop the escalating campaign and help Iran to pay
compensation for the downing of the Ukrainian plane, as a kind of Gemayel's
response to Tehran on its supportive stance in its crisis With the states of
the province.
The Iranian-Qatari relations culminated in the visit
of Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Emir of Qatar, Tehran, and held talks with Iranian
President Hassan Rouhani, January 2020.
“May there is no wisdom in the Arab hostility
towards Iran,” Prince Tamim was quoted as saying by Qatar News Agency on May
24, 2017. This led to an angry response from Riyadh and Abu Dhabi, which Qatar
replied by claiming that its official news agency website had been hacked and
that the report was false. This excuse was met with suspicion and skepticism by
Saudi Arabia and the UAE, which blocked the Qatari sites, which is what Egypt
and Bahrain did.
Tamim's first official visit to the Iranian capital,
Tehran, came a few days after the commander of the Quds Force, the outer arm of
the Iranian Revolutionary Guard militia, Qassem Soleimani, was killed after a
raid by a US plane that targeted his motorcade near Baghdad airport in Iraq to
put an end to the head of Iran's terrorist spear.
The visit, which was reported by various media
outlets, to Qatar providing $ 3 billion to Iran as a ransom after the killing
of Quds Force commander Qasim Soleimani.
The pioneers of "Twitter" circulated a
statement to the former leader of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Hassan
Abbasi, in which he says that Iran got $ 3 billion from Qatar after the killing
of Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani.
A platform of a major Qatari channel also caused
anger through social media, after it broadcast a promotional video of an
episode that deals with the personality of Qassem Soleimani, the former
commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, who ran his country's
terrorist militias in the Arab region - before he was killed in an American
raid in Baghdad in Last January.
Iraqi journalist Sufyan al-Samarrai said in a tweet
to him on Twitter: “Al-Jazeera is a platform for political and terrorist Islam.
How many young people in the Arab world have killed and destroyed the future of
the rest of them ?, And after you turned into a platform to recruit these gangs
today, you are promoting and drumming to the largest criminal and homeless
killer Millions because of the criminal corps he leads. "
Also, Syrian political activist Mohamed Sabra said:
"Al-Jazeera Podcast has been transformed into a branch of the war media of
the Revolutionary Guard terrorist militia, by glorifying the terrorist criminal
Qassem Soleimani, the murderer of children in Syria and Iraq."
He continued: "It is a human and moral fall
before it was a media fall ... Soleimani is a criminal and his glorification of
this is a contempt for the blood of the Syrian martyrs."
In his report entitled "Iranian-Qatari Relations
in the Past and Present," the Iranian-speaking "International Center
for Peace Studies", speaking in Persian, shed light on Tehran's relations
with Qatar through the Cooperation Council, which he said "Qatar was
neutral throughout the Iran-Iraq war despite some of its political positions in
The framework of the Cooperation Council and as a result of Saudi pressure, as
it was providing Saddam Hussein's regime with some financial and propaganda
assistance, but after Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait, ties were cut in August
between countries of the region and Iraq, and on the other hand, relations
between Qatar and Iran developed.
The site asserts that "Qatar is the only
country in the region that in 1990 supported the implementation of the Algiers
Agreement between Iran and Iraq."
University of Michigan professor of international
relations Muhammad Ayoub, in an article for the Interst magazine, stated that
Iran is the biggest beneficiary of the Gulf crisis, because it helped achieve a
diplomatic victory for it through attempts to normalize relations with the Gulf
countries, which started with Qatar.
The writer also pointed out that Iran's
rapprochement with Qatar comes after improved relations between Iran and
Turkey. After the Iranian vision coincided with the Turkish vision regarding
the Bashar Al-Assad regime, the Qatari-Iranian relationship has improved, in a
way that will necessarily affect Qatar's view of the Syrian crisis, due to its
new alliance with Iran.