{"id":1713,"date":"2017-06-12T11:37:01","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T07:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iransview.com\/?p=1713"},"modified":"2017-06-12T11:42:13","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T07:12:13","slug":"blockade-bad-for-qatar-good-for-iran-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iransview.com\/blockade-bad-for-qatar-good-for-iran-us\/1713\/","title":{"rendered":"Blockade, Bad for Qatar, Good for Iran: US"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Just two days after the US Senate advanced Iran Sanctions Bill, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said putting Qatar under blockade<\/a> had led to \u201cunintended\u201d humanitarian consequences and called on Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt \u201cto ease the blockade.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re seeing shortages of food. Families are being forcibly separated, and children pulled out of school\u2026Our expectation is that these countries will immediately take steps to de-escalate the situation and put forth a good faith effort to resolve their grievances they have with each other,\u201d the US top diplomat said.<\/span><\/p>\n

The call for easing Qatar\u2019s blockade comes as, despite the nuclear deal <\/a>between Iran and the P5+1 group of countries, the US Senate unanimously approved a bill to tighten Iran sanctions on Wednesday. The sanctions not only have significantly hampered Iran\u2019s international trade, but also created serious obstacles in the way of importing medicines, endangering the Iranian patients\u2019 lives over the past decades.<\/span><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the US senior officials have repeatedly accused Iran of sponsoring terrorism with no solid evidence. In the latest case, US President Donald Trump called the Tehran twin attacks<\/a> the fruits of Iran\u2019s support for terrorism. The attacks, which left 17 dead and dozens injured, were claimed by the ISIS terrorist group.<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s statements which sparked international criticisms across the world stand in direct contradiction with his presidential campaign promises. During his campaign Trump repeatedly blamed his predecessor, President Barack Obama, for supporting Saudi Arabia. He also praised Iran and Russia for their fight against ISIS.<\/span><\/p>\n

But Trump dramatically changed his positions since taking office and particularly after signing a $110b arms deal with Saudi Arabia. Now, he not only remains silent towards Saudi Arabia as the ideological hub of terrorism, but also accuses Iran of sponsoring terrorism.<\/span><\/p>\n

It seems that the US expresses concerns about terrorism and accuses certain states of sponsoring terror based on its trade ties with the regional states. With its significant trade relations with Saudi Arabia, the US has already closed its eyes to Riyadh\u2019s dictatorship, violent acts and sponsoring terrorist groups like Al-Qaeda that was behind 9\/11 attacks.<\/span><\/p>\n

Interestingly enough, Washington is against Qatar blockade despite admitting its support for terrorists in Iraq and Syria. During his Friday statements, Tillerson said: \u201cThe nation of Qatar unfortunately has historically been a funder of terrorism at a very high level.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

He went on saying: \u201cThe emir of Qatar has made progress in halting financial support and expelling terrorist elements from his country, but he must do more and he must do it more quickly.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The US secretary of state has called \u201cinhumane\u201d the sanctions imposed on Qatar by a number of Arab states and expressed concerns over the impacts of the sanctions on trade ties between his country and Qatar. This comes as Washington continues to put considerable efforts into applying illegal sanctions on Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2,10],"tags":[566,441,325,12,535,440,439,556,442,549,120,536],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/iransview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/02.jpg?fit=1280%2C831&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3ogT0-rD","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iransview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iransview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iransview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iransview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iransview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1713"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/iransview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1717,"href":"https:\/\/iransview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713\/revisions\/1717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iransview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iransview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iransview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iransview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}