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Jun 24, 2017
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Chairman of Al-Hiwar TV Azzam Al-Tamimi: "Satanic Ideological Cell" in Abu Dhabi Incites the U.S., the West, against Arab Democracy

#6093 | 02:14
Source: Hiwar TV (U.K.)

According to Azzam Al-Tamimi, Chairman of the London-based Al-Hiwar TV channel, a "Satanic ideological cell in Abu Dhabi" has been "inciting America and the West" and "trying to buy cowards everywhere with its money, in order to thwart any attempt to rekindle the Arab Spring and the call for democracy." Al-Tamimi further said that "it was Abu Dhabi and Saudi Arabia that exerted pressure on [PM] Cameron to launch an investigation into the Muslim Brotherhood." "Our problem is that the regional interests are currently represented by human devils," said Al-Tamimi in the June 24 interview.

 

Azzam Al-Tamimi: ''Throughout our current crisis – beginning with the coup in Egypt and the coup against the Arab Spring – Abu Dhabi has been our problem. There is a Satanic ideological cell in Abu Dhabi, which has been inciting America and the West, and has been trying to buy cowards everywhere with its money, in order to thwart any attempt to rekindle the Arab Spring and the call for democracy.''

 

Interviewer: ''But could this cell enjoy such a free hand, spending all that money and controlling everything, without a green light from the United States?''

 

Azzam Al-Tamimi: ''They don't need a green light. Quite the opposite, they use their financial influence, the arms deals, the trade deals, and their relations with countries in the region and beyond, in order to exert pressure on the U.S. and Europe to change their policies. We had such an experience here in Britain. It was Abu Dhabi and Saudi Arabia that exerted pressure on [PM] Cameron to launch an investigation into the Muslim Brotherhood. Until then, the British government had no problem with the Muslim Brotherhood. It did not consider the Muslim Brotherhood to be a terrorist or extremist movement. We at Al-Hiwar TV had such an experience too. In November 2013, the UAE cancelled a six-billion-pound deal with the British government, because Cameron told them that he could not shut down Al-Hiwar TV. They are the ones inciting [the West] not vice versa. The Arabs should realize that the West has interests, and that it is willing to work with anyone for the sake of these interests. Our problem is that the regional interests are currently represented by human devils, of which we talked.'

 

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