Senior Saudi lobbyist in US threatens Emir of Qatar

The founder and president of the Saudi American Public Relations Committee has warned that the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani, faces the same fate as ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi if he insists on aligning his country with Iran against Saudi Arabia.

“To the Emir of Qatar,” Salman Al-Ansari wrote on Twitter. “About your alignment with Iran’s extreme government and insulting the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques [the Saudi monarch]. I remind you that Mohamed Morsi did the same and was isolated and imprisoned.”

Ansari’s threat comes a week after unknown parties hacked into the official Qatari News Agency (QNA) and posted fabricated statements attributed to the emir in which he made hostile statements against Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries.

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The Saudi lobbyist’s remarks give a very strong hint that the 2013 military coup in Egypt led by the then Defence Minister Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi against the democratically-elected Mohamed Morsi was orchestrated with support from several Arab, regional and international parties.

Morsi visited Iran in August 2012 during his year in office. He was the first Egyptian president to visit the Islamic Republic since the revolution in 1979 that brought Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to power.