{"id":6226,"date":"2015-11-13T15:36:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T15:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/?p=6226"},"modified":"2025-09-25T10:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T10:17:07","slug":"gulf-allies-becoming-a-burden-ribal-al-assad-tells-sputnik-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/tr\/gulf-allies-becoming-a-burden-ribal-al-assad-tells-sputnik-news\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Gulf Allies Becoming a Burden,&#8217; Ribal Al-Assad tells Sputnik News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The West should reconsider its alliances in the Middle East with states involved in human rights abuses and supporting Islamic extremists, London-based human rights group Organization for Democracy and Freedom in Syria Founder Ribal al-Assad told Sputnik.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WASHINGTON (Sputnik), Leandra Bernstein \u2014 The United States and Europe count Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the Gulf monarchies as key allies in the ongoing fight against the Islamic State and extremism in the Middle East, despite those countries&#8217; documented support for Salafist extremists and the Muslim Brotherhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey are becoming a burden on us,\u201d Assad said in a Thursday interview specifically citing Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A number of western allies are \u201cworse than the Syrian regime,\u201d Assad, the cousin of Syrian President Bashar Assad, explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur allies are still dictatorships\u2026 some of them [still follow] Sharia law, they cut people&#8217;s heads off, they cut people\u2019s hands off, they whip people. These are our allies, but it is embarrassing today to say these are our allies,\u201d Assad stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more: http:\/\/sputniknews.com\/middleeast\/20151113\/1030012897\/west-allies-Persian-gulf.html#ixzz3s3XZZKTY<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The West should reconsider its alliances in the Middle East with states involved in human rights abuses and supporting Islamic extremists, London-based human rights group Organization for Democracy and Freedom in Syria Founder Ribal al-Assad told Sputnik. WASHINGTON (Sputnik), Leandra Bernstein \u2014 The United States and Europe count Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the Gulf monarchies [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1273,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interviews"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6231,"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6226\/revisions\/6231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}