President Obama, we don’t need your lessons
US President Barrak Obama has once again erred in his approach in terms of the position taken by the GCC countries regarding Iran. He should excuse us when we tell him that looking at matters with one eye has become the characteristic of America’s politics.
US looks at our coalition with it from the perspective of the follower and the followed or the master and the subordinate. This is definitely wrong since our capital cities have been trying to notify Washington about it, especially in the past five years.
Unfortunately, the arrogance of the US blinded the decision-makers who could no longer see the reality. This is why we now tell Obama: Our problem is neither our youths nor the relationship of State establishments with the people as you assumed in the biased reports that Israel has been writing against us for years. The next time the GCC leaders go to Camp David, they will not listen to the fake information fed by the Zionist media to you and the consultation tools regarding our crisis with our society and our youths.
We send our youths to your universities to acquire knowledge yet they return as extremists and ‘projects’ for radicals due to your prevailing culture of isolation, marginalization and racism towards Arabs. This is happening in a country that claims to uphold human rights and liberties; but in reality, it is far from what it claims to be.
The issue is that your culture looks at the ‘cover’ of matters rather than the essence, as manifested in your discriminatory perception on a woman’s veil (Hijab) in a manner which distances her from her brain. Through this perception, the ‘Salat’ (five daily prayers) of Muslims is considered a terrorist act, whereas you have a different and more tolerant perception on other religions.
Excuse us Mr President, our governments don’t need lessons on how to run their country’s affairs. They don’t need dictations as mentioned in your interview with the New York Times.
If the American culture is based on overcoming the complexity of your country at the expense of the whole humanity, you have to realize that this assumption is the reason behind your repeated failures in every issue you have engaged yourselves in — whether in Afghanistan where you were unable to get out of the swamp, or in Iraq which continues to burn. The bottom line is you have exposed your real image — a country with delusions of power which cannot defeat a handful of fighters holding traditional weapons.
We, O holder of the Nobel Peace Prize, do not have the ‘cowboy’ mentality, as we rather contemplate on history to learn from it. Therefore, throughout the 12 long years of negotiations on Iran’s nuclear ambitions, you refused to listen to our voice regarding Iran’s goal to expand in the region, as you focused on the nuclear program.
We know how Iran’s politics operates, especially on this issue, where it tried to take from you what it wants in exchange for the nuclear program in order to avoid implications of the sanctions imposed on it. Blood will flow again in the veins of Iran’s military nuclear research once the sanctions are lifted. By that time, whatever its obligations towards you will be useless.
The danger being sensed in Iran everyday for the past 36 years has already been felt in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Yemen and Bahrain. For this, we are no longer comfortable with your policies in the region as evident in the role you played in Egypt concerning the Muslim Brotherhood Movement that you imposed on the then ruling military council, through which you handed over power to Mohamed Morsi.
It was known that General Ahmad Shafiq won the elections but you preferred to drag Egypt, the largest Arab nation, into a turbulent situation. This was done to satisfy Israel that has long been trying to divide the Arab World into smaller sectarian nations, which is not possible unless the Brotherhood is in power. However, the revolution of Egyptians frustrated your policy in this regard and your response was hysterical.
Until today, you have not listened to the word of caution from the Arabian Gulf that the Iranian project will be implemented under the guise of nuclear program negotiations. Here is Tehran struggling to get hold of Yemen, re-enact the crises in Bahrain, and destabilize security of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. All these efforts are meant to break the ties between those countries, but it will fail the same way it did in other regions. This time around, the analgesic you are planning to prescribe to our countries will be ineffective.
Your Excellency Mr President, you need to carefully study the situation. Do not act like the Arab adage, “They follow Ali in prayer and dine with Muawiya”, because the source of the problem is Israel. You keep on struggling to guarantee its existence and expansion plan to cover the entire Palestinian territories under your protection. Another problem is Iran whose leaders are dreaming of reviving the ancient Sasanian Empire.
As per the first case, you should strive to solve the Palestinian problem through both countries. On the second case, you should steer clear of the idea of reviving the dead regional police after you deposed the Shah and replaced him with the Mullah. Any alternatives to these are just illusions.
Consequently, we urge you to read the history of the region well for you to discover why the GCC countries have taken such a position against your policy. We know very well how to protect ourselves and manage our affairs, so the ‘Determination Storm’ is the best way to express this. It is not only meant to teach the Houthis a lesson and spoil the Iranian project, but also to send a message to you that we are decisive.