Arabs: Biden Administration Harming US interests
by Khaled Abu Toameh • March 30, 2022 at 5:00 am
"In 1979 Iranian students established their own group, which over time turned into an extremist military organization under the name of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. The group seized control of the US Embassy embassy in Tehran. Two years later the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.... struck buildings in Lebanon that housed American... soldiers, killing of 307 individuals, including 241 Americans.... In 1996, terrorists linked to Iran and the Revolutionary Guards, and their Hezbollah proxy attacked a residential complex in Al-Khobar, eastern Saudi Arabia, killing and wounding many American experts and other innocent people. Since 1990, Iran has turned into an incubator for Al-Qaeda and ISIS." — Mohammed Al-Saed, Saudi writer, Okaz, March 24, 2022.
"The events of September 11 [2001] came on top of those crimes, which were committed by Osama bin Laden and Al-Zawahiri, all of whom had the support of Iran. In the aftermath of the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, Iran fueled the horrific killings and bombings that affected the US Army through different cells that were driven by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. Thousands of American soldiers were killed." — Mohammed Al-Saed, Okaz, March 24, 2022.
"[T]he Democratic administration headed by Barack Obama is not happy with what Trump did...." — Mohammed Al-Saed, Okaz, March 24, 2022.
"The Houthis bomb Jeddah, Biden rewards Iran....The Biden administration knows that Iran finances the Houthi group and supplies it with missiles." — Sawsan Al-Sha'er, Bahraini journalist, Al-Watan, March 22, 2022.
"[T]here is no American policy in Syria other than placing Syria entirely in the hands of Iran." — Nadim Koteich, Lebanese TV presenter and journalist, Asharq Al-Awsat, March 22, 2022.
The Houthi militia rejects any settlement to the civil war in Yemen and seeks to assist Iran in establishing a foothold in the Arab region. "This is what the US administrations could never comprehend... It encouraged Iran to turn Yemen into a base for Iranian missiles and drones. — Kheirallah Kheirallah, veteran Lebanese journalist, Al-Arab, March 28, 2022.
The crisis between the Biden administration and the Arab countries, especially the Gulf states, is so deep that it could take years, if not decades, to repair the damage caused to America's interests in the Middle East.
Many Arabs are continuing to express deep disappointment with the policies of the Biden administration in the Middle East, especially regarding Iran's role in destabilizing security and stability in Arab countries that once trusted the US as a reliable and trustworthy ally.
These Arabs say that President Joe Biden is following in the footsteps of former President Barack Obama, who preferred to reach a nuclear deal with Iran at the expense of Washington's Arab friends and allies in the Middle East.
The Arabs are further saying that the policies and actions of the Biden administration are harming not only America's allies, but also the interests of the US.
"The notorious agreement unleashed Iran's hand, allowing it to tamper with the security and stability of the region," wrote Syrian political analyst Rami Alkhalifa Alali.
