Saturday, 11 November 2017

Saudi Arabia and Iran: Regional power conflicts and Qatar crisis

The Saudi-led Arab alliance's blockade on Qatar is going on for nearly five months. The Saudi alliance has imposed sanctions against Qatar on backing of terrorism. Qatar has always denied the allegation. Although different diplomatic activities were targeted at different times to resolve the Qatar crisis, it did not see the light of Saudi Arabia and Iranian regional conflict.
Qatar's huge amount of financial assistance to the reconstruction of hamas-controlled Gaza, cooperation to the Muslim Brotherhood, Qatar-based news media Al-Jazeera's Israel policy and the United States anti-alignment, Turkish military based in Qatar and Qatar's economic prosperity are the main reasons for unprecedented diplomatic and commercial sanctions by Saudi Arabia and neighbouring Arab countries according to international political analysts.
General CC took the power by overthrowing elected Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and started torture and repressive treatment of supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood. Qatar gave shelter to Brotherhood leaders and supporters who left the country for the torture of General Sisi. Besides, Qatar's relations with Saudi Arabia have cooled down on 'Hamas'. Saudi Arabia is trying their best to keep Qatar in its borders, one of which is to stop supporting the Palestinian liberation movement Hamas. Qatar has spent billions of dollars in building new homes, hospitals and roads in the Gaza Valley in recent years.
Early on the Saudi alliance presented a 13-point demand for normalizing relations with Qatar and the condition of withdrawal of the blockade. Among those claims -- the reduction of relations with Iran, the severing of ties with the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas, to stop financial assistance for those who have declared terrorist organizations by the Saudi alliance and the United States of America, the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera channel shutdown are noteworthy. Many of the conditions provided by the Saudi alliance are contrary to Qatar's national interest. As a result Qatar did not accept the unreasonable demand of the Saudi alliance.
Qatar, however, did not accept the demand for closure of Al Jazeera. In a recent interview with the US media CBS television, Qatar's Amir Sheikh Tamim said Al-Jazeera's broadcast will not be closed. It can be assumed Qatar will not even stop the military base of Qatar for the sake of Qatar's security. Qatar will not lose relations with Iran for its own security. Qatar's Amir Sheikh Tamim again called on Saudi Arabia to negotiate to ease the ban of four Arab neighbours. Now the issue is to see whether the opponent responds to this call at all or the ongoing crisis exists.
However, due to the blockade of the Saudi alliance against Qatar, Gaza people will be in trouble. Claiming that the 2014 Israeli strike in Gaza, mainly with the financial support of Qatar, Hamas was restructuring their regime. Qatar pledged to provide USD 1 billion in aid there.
In the news release by December 2016, nearly one-fifth of its promised support was given. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia's recent blockade has put Qatar at risk itself. Following they will be forced to cut the support given in Gaza. This proximity to Qatar with Hamas is believed to be the root cause of Saudi-Qatar conflicts.
As a result, Israel will be the main beneficiary of this blockade. Qatar will now be forced to talk to Israel under pressure. And the ostensible facilities for Hamas have already been minimized. It is easy to imagine, Israel is being most privileged because of the blockade of the Saudi alliance.
It is believed that the strong relationship between Qatar and Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood is one of the reasons for this ongoing conflict. Brotherhood opponent General CC of Egypt is specially supporting this blockbuster only for his sake. He is angry at the role of Qatar's al-Jazeera. Al-Jazeera had publicized the torture that General CC had played while taking power against the Brotherhood's staff irrespective of male and child.
Alongside 'Arab Spring' - there is no opportunity to deny Al Jazeera's encouraging role during the period. Outside of this, the news media spreading the news about the internal situation in Egypt is what the military junta is all about.
On the other hand, the channel has directly presented the malfeasance documents of the Saudi royal family in front of the world. Due to these reasons, the rage of Saudi Arabia has risen on Qatar and their channel.
Not too long ago, many civilians were killed in a funeral of throwing a Saudi bomb. This news was telecasted by the al-Jazeera. In fact, there is no scope to deny Al Jazeera's role in creating opportunities for freedom in the free media of the Middle East and the Gulf. Everybody in the world knows that Saudi Prince Salman and Abu Dhabi's Prince Zayed gave special support to General CC and the country's military forces in ousting the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt's democratic government.
So, there is nothing to say about it that they will go directly against Qatar. Meanwhile, Saudi Arab has failed to expect obsequiousness behaviour from Qatar like Bahrain. As well as Qatar's independent foreign policy gave birth to concerns among them.
The Saudi alliance creates anti-Qatar blockade at a time when the country is busy preparing for the 2022 World Cup Football Tournament. They think that the amount of damage will increase further and they will be under pressure. But the change in the Middle East's geo-politics in the aftermath of the Arab Spring is the indirect result of this blockade. There is still a lot of incident to do in this play.

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