US pressure group targets Qatar and Iran with Saudi-Emirati funding

The United States and Saudi Arabia's covert funding of the UAE and Saudi Arabia has uncovered a US lobby group targeting Iran and Qatar in the United States.

The website, analyzing e-mails of UAE Ambassador to Washington Yusuf al-Otaiba, reported that in 2017, the United Against Nuclear Iran group received $ 5 million from the group's umbrella, the Counter-Extremism Project, which promotes Saudi and UAE accusations that Qatar is financing terrorism.

According to the previously leaked correspondence of Ambassador Al Otaiba, the name of Mark Wallace, director of the United Against a Nuclear Iran group, shows the costs of a forum where his group is working in the same direction.

Pompeo and Bolton
It was strange that US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo chose days before a symposium of the group "United against a nuclear Iran" as a place to deliver a speech on the imposition of new sanctions against Iran, the site notes that the group has a powerful force in shaping US policy in the Gulf region , And has access to the highest levels of the US administration.

Former US national security adviser John Bolton received $ 240,000 in funding from 2016 to 2017 from the Anti-Extremism Project, before Bolton became national security adviser.

Loblog said he had seen documents showing that "United against a nuclear Iran" had received $ 35 million in funding for a campaign against Iran and Qatar within two years. The documents indicate that this group is working to obtain funding by addressing diplomats and government advisers from anti-Iranian countries In the Middle East.

According to the same website, sources of funding "united against a nuclear Iran" raise questions about whether the group is an unauthorized lobbying group with the US authorities.

The same website adds that the group held a few days ago its annual conference on the sidelines of the meetings of the General Assembly of the United Nations, and was attended by the Ambassador of Bahrain to America, Sheikh Abdullah bin Rashid bin Abdullah Al Khalifa, and the Saudi Minister of State for Gulf Affairs Tamer Al Sabhan, and the Ambassador of Israel to America, Ron Dermer, US Ambassador to Germany Richard Mandelker and UAE Ambassador to America Yousef Al Otaiba.

Mujahideen Movement
Earlier this week, the United Against a Nuclear Iran drew the attention of both the US media and the Iranian Foreign Ministry, when the group sponsored an Iranian opposition conference a few days ago in New York, which was attended by supporters of the People's Mujahedeen (MEK). Tehran was included in the terrorist organizations, and America had included them in its list of terrorist groups until 2012.

After the conference, a spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry announced last Tuesday that the inclusion of "United against a nuclear Iran" in the list of terrorist organizations.