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by Najat AlSaied • December 1, 2017
at 5:00 am
- "We are just
returning to the Islam we are used to... The moderate
Islam". — Saudi Crown Prince, Prince Mohammed bin Salman,
at the Future Investment Initiative in Riyadh on October 26,
2017.
- Saudi Arabia's
complaints against Iran's interference and spreading extremism
cannot sound credible if extremism is being practiced inside
Saudi Arabia.
- There urgently needs
to be a unified American position to confront the Axis of
Resistance. Iran continues to be the world's leading sponsor of
terrorism, empowering these armed militias and extremist groups
-- the basis of terrorism both in the region and across the
world. It makes death threats, cooperates with a nuclearized
North Korea, and all the while races toward nuclear weapons
capability itself.
U.S.
President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump join King Salman
bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia, and the President of Egypt,
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, in the inaugural opening of the Global Center
for Combating Extremist Ideology, May 21, 2017. (Official White House
Photo by Shealah Craighead)
The dispute between the Arab states, often known as
the Axis of Moderation, and the officially designated terrorist
regime in Iran often known as the Axis of Resistance, is no longer
just a political disagreement but a threat to the national security
of Arab countries.
While the Arab states seem pro-statehood and work with
other states, Iran and the Axis of resistance seems not to. Even
though Iran calls itself Republic, it has a militia mentality and
rarely deals with states. In general, rather than dealing with
governments, it instead establishes militias, as it has in Lebanon
and Yemen. Even in Iraq, where the government is considered its ally,
Iran has established more than 15 militias. Qatar, by supporting
Hamas and Hezbollah, as well as Syria under the Assad regime, seem to
have the same mentality as Iran. If you trace the Axis of Resistance,
all of them appear to have adopted the concept of supporting militias
and extremist groups under the slogan of "resistance."
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