“We believe that Qatar’s performance in relation to the Syrian crisis has never been logical,” Chairman of the parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy commission Alaeddin Boroujerdi said.
He noted that it is unusual to see a Muslim country acts to spark crisis in another Muslim country and does things which are even against international norms.
“Ceding the Syrian embassy to the opposition or trying to suspend membership of the Muslim country in the Arab League and Islamic Cooperation Organization (OIC) were among the unconventional measures in which the Qataris have played a key role,” Boroujerdi said.
“I think that Qatar will be forced to reconsider its policies, but it will lose many of its interests by then,” he added.
“We like to continue our good neighborly ties with Qatar as a Muslim and Arab country, while we have serious complains about this policy of Doha,” Boroujerdi said.
Last month, the former US national security adviser said the ongoing crisis in Syria has been orchestrated by Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and their western allies.
“In late 2011 there were outbreaks in Syria produced by a drought and abetted by two well-known autocracies in the Middle-East: Qatar and Saudi Arabia,” Zbigniew Brzezinski said in an interview with The National Interest on June 24.
He added that US President Barack Obama also supported the unrest in Syria and suddenly announced that President Bashar al-Assad “has to go -- without, apparently, any real preparation for making that happen.”
“Then in the spring of 2012, the election year in the US, the CIA under General Petraeus, according to The New York Times of March 24th of this year, a very revealing article, mounts a large-scale effort to assist the Qataris and the Saudis and link them somehow with the Turks in that effort,” said Brzezinski, who was former White House national security adviser under Jimmy Carter and now a counselor and trustee at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a senior research professor at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.
Foreign-sponsored militancy in Syria, which erupted in March 2011, has claimed the lives of many people, including large numbers of Syrian soldiers and security personnel.
The New York Times said in a recent report the CIA was cooperating with Turkey and a number of other regional governments to supply arms to militants fighting the government in Syria.
Syria crisis started as pro-reform protests but with interventions by the United States, UK and their regional and western allies it soon turned to a massive insurgency which took in numerous terrorist groups from all over Europe and the Middle-East to wage one of the bloodiest wars the region has ever experienced.
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