Abdel Bari Atwan, editor-in-chief of Rai al-Youm, said on Wednesday that the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution underlined that Palestine is the main issue of the Islamic world and that is a powerful message from the source of might.
As to Biden’s trip to the region, Atwan said that his visit to Jeddah was aimed to convince Saudi Arabia to increase oil production, create a so-called “Arab NATO” and integrate “Israel” into the region, but none of his goals were met and the president returned to the US empty-handed.
Biden claims that the US protects Arab littoral states of the Persian Gulf, but what kind of protection is this? They failed in Afghanistan and Iraq and now, they are being defeated in Ukraine, the political expert said.
As former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said the era of Western and American dominance over the world has come to an end and the West is facing a new reality, Atwan noted.
Elsewhere in his statement, Atwan argued that the Astana peace summit in Tehran was a platform to review security issues in West Asia, as well as a response to Biden’s visit to the region.
The summit in Tehran was a response to the summit that the US president held recently in the presence of heads of states of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council along with Egypt, Jordan, and Iraq in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the analyst added.
The message of the Tehran summit was for our brothers in the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council to leave Biden; we are the children of the region and rescue team of the region as well, and we are the ones who determine peace and war throughout the whole region.
The seventh summit meeting of Astana peace process guarantors was held in the presence of presidents of the three countries – Iran, Russia, and Turkey – in the Iranian capital of Tehran on Tuesday evening.
The presidents of Turkey, Russia, and Iran –respectively, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Vladimir Putin, and Ebrahim Raisi – held talks in the Astana peace talks, stressing the need for respecting Syria's national sovereignty and territorial integrity.
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