{"id":8308,"date":"2018-06-05T00:30:24","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T23:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=8308"},"modified":"2018-06-05T00:57:07","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T23:57:07","slug":"one-year-into-gulf-crisis-qatar-stronger-than-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/one-year-into-gulf-crisis-qatar-stronger-than-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"One year into Gulf crisis, Qatar \u2018stronger than ever\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8309\" src=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Qatar.jpg\" alt=\"Qatar\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/>As the ongoing crisis in Gulf Arab relations enters its second year, Qatar says it has foiled plans by the four states arrayed against it (Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain) to undermine its independence vis-\u00e0-vis foreign policy.<br \/>\n\u201cThey imposed an illegal and immoral blockade on us that contradicts humanitarian values and Islamic values of compassion,\u201d Salem bin Mubarak Al Shafi, Qatar\u2019s Ambassador to Turkey, told Anadolu Agency in an exclusive interview.<br \/>\nQatar has remained at odds with the four states since June 5 of last year, when they accused Doha of supporting terrorism &#8212; allegations Doha denies &#8212; and collectively severed ties with the country.<br \/>\nThe four-nation Arab bloc didn\u2019t stop there: they also imposed a land, sea and air blockade on Qatar in hopes of making it comply with a long list of demands.<br \/>\nAccording to Al Shafi, the Saudi-led axis\u00a0 has been unable to provide any evidence substantiating its claims.<br \/>\n\u201cThey thought that by threatening us with military escalations and inciting for the overthrow of Qatar\u2019s government we would quickly capitulate,\u201d Al Shafi said.<br \/>\nBut Qatar, he added, had thwarted the plan \u201cthanks to the trust our allies and friends around the world had in us\u201d.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/one-year-into-gulf-crisis-qatar-stronger-than-ever\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the ongoing crisis in Gulf Arab relations enters its second year, Qatar says it has foiled plans by the four states arrayed against it (Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain) to undermine its independence vis-\u00e0-vis foreign policy. \u201cThey imposed an illegal and immoral blockade on us that contradicts humanitarian values and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8310,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8308\/revisions\/8310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}