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WORLD NEWS Friday 9 June 2017

Qatar rejects ‘blockade,’ denies terror allegations

Jazeera satellite news net- lar nation. rier Qatar Airways now flies
work. Kuwait’s emir is working increasingly over Iran and
He said Qatar, as an inde- to mediate the Gulf cri- Turkey after being blocked
pendent nation, also had sis around Qatar, which is elsewhere in the Middle
the right to support groups home to a major U.S. mili- East. On Wednesday, Emi-
like the Muslim Brother- tary base and is the host of rati officials shut down the
hood, despite the fact that the 2022 FIFA World Cup. airline’s offices in the UAE.
its neighbors outlawed the “If anyone thinks they are Al-Jazeera’s offices have
Sunni Islamist organization. going to impose anything been shut down by author-
Sheikh Mohammed’s hard on my internal affairs or my ities in Saudi Arabia and
line mirrored that of a top internal issues, this is not go- Jordan.
Emirati diplomat who told ing to happen,” Sheikh Mo- Turkey’s parliament, on the
the AP on Wednesday that hammed said. other hand, has approved
the United Arab Emirates Worried residents have re- sending troops to an exist-
believes “there’s nothing to sponded to the crisis by ing Turkish base in Qatar as
Qatari foreign minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al
Thani, poses for a photo during an interview with the Associated negotiate” with Qatar. emptying grocery stores in a sign of support.
Press in Doha, Qatar, Thursday, June 8, 2017. Qatar’s top diplo- Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bah- the capital of Doha, and “No one has given them
mat struck a defiant tone Thursday, saying no one gave Arab rain, the United Arab Emir- Saudi Arabia has blocked the right to blockade my
nations the right to “blockade” his energy-rich country, and that ates and other countries trucks carrying food from country, not to allow cars,
the campaign by Saudi Arabia and its allies to isolate Qatar is severed diplomatic ties entering the country across or my flights to fly over their
based on “false and fabricated news.” with Qatar earlier this week its only land border. countries or my ships to
(AP Photo/Malak Harb)
and cut off air, sea and Doha is a major internation- park in their port,” the for-
land travel to the peninsu- al travel hub, but flag car- eign minister said. q
By MALAK HARB based on “false and fabri-
JON GAMBRELL cated news.”
Associated Press In a wide-ranging inter-
DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Arab view with The Associated
states have no right to Press, Qatari Foreign Min-
“blockade” Qatar, the ister Sheikh Mohammed
country’s top diplomat bin Abdulrahman Al Thani
said Thursday, insisting the repeatedly denied that his
campaign by Saudi Arabia country funded extremists
and its allies to isolate the and he rejected the idea
tiny, energy-rich nation is of shutting down its Al-
Iran says 5 Tehran attackers

had fought for Islamic State

By NASSER KARIMI ment on its website with
AMIR VAHDAT bloody pictures of the
Associated Press men’s corpses. It identified
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Five of them by their first names
the men who launched an only, saying they didn’t
attack in the heart of Iran’s want to release their last
capital previously fought names due to security and
for the Islamic State group, privacy concerns for their
the country’s Intelligence families. It described them
Ministry said Thursday, ac- as “long affiliated with the
knowledging the first such Wahhabi,” an ultraconser-
assault by the extremists vative form of Sunni Islam
in the Shiite power. The at- practiced in Saudi Arabia.
tacks Wednesday on Iran’s However, it stopped short
parliament and the tomb of directly blaming the
of its revolutionary leader kingdom for the attack,
killed at least 17 people though many in the coun-
and wounded over 40, try expressed suspicion
stunning its people. Iran’s regional rival had a
The ministry issued a state- hand in the attack.q