Showing posts with label OIC summit in Mecca. Show all posts
Showing posts with label OIC summit in Mecca. Show all posts

Thursday, June 27, 2019

Saudis dividing Muslim Ummah: Pakistan analyst

Saudis dividing Muslim Ummah: Pakistan analyst



Islamabad, June 27, IRNA -- A Pakistani analyst says Saudi leadership, instead of unifying the Muslim countries divided them.
Muhammad Imran in his article published in ‘the Nation’ said the Saudi rulers exploit the reverence of ordinary Muslims for the holy sites to prolong their brutal rule.
“The recent OIC conference is a glaring example of Saudi’s attempts to isolate Iran in the block of Muslim countries,” viewed the expert.
"It is pertinent to mention that Saudi Arabia has failed to play a positive to end conflicts among Muslim states. It is not wrong to say that Saudi leadership, instead of unifying the Muslim countries divided them,” said the analyst.
The intellectual said Saudi Arabia did not benefit from Syrian misadventure at all. “Riyadh’s involvement in Syria benefited only Israel,” he noted.
The expert added recently, tensions have heightened between Iran and the US, Zionist regime and Saudi Arabia nexus (undeclared Troika).
The analyst was of the view that though Zionist regime wants to overthrow Iranian government it however, does not dare to attack Iran unilaterally because of expected retaliation by Iran and Hezbollah.
“Therefore, Israel is trying to instigate the US or Saudi Arabia to start the war,” Imran said viewed.
The analyst said Saudi Arabia needs to revisit its foreign policy against Iran before the situation becomes so hostile that there is no point of return for the parties in the conflict.
“Any dispute that Saudi Arabia and Iran become part of will only help Israel to work on its expansionist agenda,” he said.
He said the Iranian governments and people had always sustained the US pressure and this resilience on the part of Iran further frustrates the US.
Imran said the hawks in the US and the warmongers in Saudi Arabia and Zionist regime should remember that Iran is not easy to target at all.  “Any adventurism against Iran will inflame the whole region,” he said.
The analyst said that Iran once a major ally of the US in the region but the equation drastically changed after the Islamic Revolution and Tehran refused to toe the American line.
“A nexus of the US, Israel and Saudi Arabia is at play against Iran. Each one of these countries has their particular interests in the region for which all of them see Iran as the major obstacle,” he said.
He noted that it is Zionist regime that considers Iran as a potential threat for its expansionist agenda in the Middle East.
He added Zionist regime has collaborators in all Arabs states on its neighborhood, i.e., Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the UAE.
“Contrarily, Iran is providing moral support in a way or the other, to all organisations that fight Israel’s expansionism: Hamas, Al-Fatah in Palestine and Hezbollah in Lebanon,” Muhammad Imran said.

Sunday, June 02, 2019

OIC breaks with Saudi line on Iran to focus on Palestine

This photo shows a general view of participants at the 14th Islamic summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, June 1, 2019. (Photo by Reuters)


The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has urged member countries to take "appropriate measures" against countries that move their embassies to Jerusalem al-Quds.
The OIC summit in Mecca, in its final statement Saturday, condemned US recognition of Jerusalem al-Quds as the "capital" of Israel as well as any position that supports prolonging occupation of Palestinian territories.
Saudi Arabia tried to hijack the summit's agenda for its Iran-bashing campaign, creating sharp differences among OIC member-states on a gamut of issues. 
But the final statement left out the kingdom's political grandstanding, instead stressing support for a future Palestinian state.
It also rejected any deal or plan that prolongs Israeli occupation and undermines the right of return for Palestinian refugees, in an implicit rejection of a US plan touted by President Donald Trump as "the deal of the century".  
Saudi Arabia and the UAE are the special privy among the Arab states to Washington's plan which is reportedly riding roughshod on Palestine's core issues, including its statehood and return of refugees. 
A meeting next month in Bahrain aimed at rallying Arab economic support for the US plan is being boycotted by the Palestinians, but Saudi Arabia and the UAE are attending amid growing ties with Israel. 
This handout photo taken and released by the Jordanian Royal Palace shows Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (3rd L) posing for a family picture with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) leaders during a summit in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, June 1, 2019. (Via AFP)
Saudi Arabia's King Salman used the summit's opening to attack Iran over recent mysterious blasts which he described as "terrorist acts" that targeted oil tankers off the UAE coast of Fujairah.
Iran has called for the clarification of the exact dimensions of the incident and the vigilance of regional states "in the face of any adventurism by foreign elements", and warned against "plots by ill-wishers to disrupt regional security".
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani had his own message for OIC leaders ahead of the summit, urging them to stay focused on the rights of Palestinians.
In a letter published online Friday, Rouhani said Muslim leaders should not let the importance of Palestinian statehood be "marginalized" in the face of the Trump administration's forthcoming plan.
Rouhani also noted in the letter he was not invited to the Islamic summit, but expressed Iran's readiness to work with all Muslim leaders to confront the White House's "deal of the century".
Iran had a representative present at the 57-nation OIC summit. On Friday, it regretted "Saudi Arabia's abuse of its privilege as the host" of the OIC "to sow division between Islamic and regional countries".
In its final statement, the OIC refused to accept any proposal for peaceful settlement that did not accord with Palestinians' legitimate inalienable rights.
It also underlined the need to protect the right of return for Palestinian refugees under UN General Assembly Resolution 194.
The group further opposed Israel's illegal measures aimed at changing facts in the occupied Palestinian territories and undermining the so-called two-state solution.
Israel's claim to Syria's Golan 
Elsewhere in its statement, the OIC rejected any decision to change the legal and demographic status of Syria's Golan Heights, especially the recent US move to recognize Israeli "sovereignty" over the occupied territory.
The organization called for Israel's complete withdrawal from the Golan and its return to the 1967 borders in accordance with UN Security Council resolutions.
Back in March, Trump signed a controversial decree recognizing Israeli “sovereignty” over the occupied Golan in a move which is in obvious contravention of international law.
Islamophobia concerns
Additionally, the OIC expressed concerns about growing Islamophobia across the world.
Islamophobia, "as a contemporary form of racism and religious discrimination, continues to grow in many parts of the world, as evident by the increase in incidents of religious intolerance, negative stereotyping, and hatred and violence against Muslims," it said.
The OIC also condemned the inhumane situation of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims, demanding a halt to violence against the minority group.
Myanmar's government has the responsibility to protect its citizens, it noted.