Iranian spectators wearing t-shirts with the lion and the sun flag are detained while Basij militiamen from
#Iran
are granted entry, no questions asked. Major non-NATO "ally"
#Qatar
once again reveals itself. U.S. policymakers should take note.
2. In July 2021, the US said it investigated Qatar over Israeli claims that the country financed the IRGC. This came shortly after then-President Rivlin furnished the White House with intel regarding “recent funding that Qatar provided the IRGC."
3. In Sep. 2021, the US and Qatar took coordinated action against Hezbollah financiers, as the US designated Qatar-based AlDar Properties was designated for being owned, controlled, or directed by, directly or indirectly, Hezbollah financier Sulaiman al-Banai.
4. Besides, the Al-Jazeera channel, which intensively covered the events of the "Arab Spring," deliberately avoided covering the
#IranProtests2022
, apparently in accordance with the deepening relations between Qatar and Iran.
5. In May 2020, Al-Jazeera even published an animation praising Soleimani, "the warrior in the path of God," even though he actually commanded war crimes against Qatar's co-religious, millions of Sunnis, in Iraq and Syria.
6. In February 2022, Iran and Qatar signed 14 bilateral cooperation deals during a visit by Raisi to Doha. The visit symbolized Qatar being the leading partner of the IRI in the Persian Gulf.
The Qatar Airways Cargo flight made an 82-minute stop Tehran's Imam Khomeini International Airport (commercial hub for Iran Air and Mahan Air) before heading onward to Beirut