8/3/2017 Demystifying Qatar-Iran connection in GCC crisis http://aa.com.tr/en/analysis-news/demystifying-qatar-iran-connection-in-gcc-crisis/845650# 1/6 Demystifying Qatar-Iran connection in GCC crisis Crisis, if persists, will only increase Iran's in｡uence, disrupt U.S. efforts against it, terrorism, spreading radicalism By Dr. Ali Hussein Bakeer - The writer is an international relations analyst and political adviser. ISTANBUL One of the charges used as a pretext to justify actions against Qatar in the recent pre-planned Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) crisis -- in addition to severing diplomatic relations, executing a blockade, along with media and political campaigns as well as cyber attacks -- is the so-called close relationship between Doha and Tehran. The current crisis was simply made out of nothing, and since there was no occasion to launch this con｡ict in the rst place, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain had to go way back in time, to six, 10, 15 and even 20 years ago, to dig up evidences for their allegations that actually have nothing to do with the current Qatari Emir and his government or with the current dynamics in the Middle East anyway.  20.06.2017  