US uses Saudi proxies to advance goals in Mideast : Pundit

Press TV has interviewed Muhammad al-Asi, the former imam of Islamic Center of Washington, and Peter Sinnott, an independent scholar from New York, to discuss a new letter by Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Khamenei to the youth in the West, where he slams the US and its allies for backing the Takfiri groups wreaking havoc in the Middle East.

Asi believes the United States and the Israeli regime have tried to create a wave of terrorism in order to destabilize the Middle East, but they have failed to make their dreams come true on their own.

Washington and Tel Aviv have, therefore, resorted to Saudi Arabia as a “catalyst” to advance their plots in the West Asia region as they cannot make Muslim nations in the region to obey their orders, according to the analyst.

The analyst argues that the US promotes “sectarianism” in the region through the Al Saud regime in order to justify the “atrocious” terror activities “that they are responsible for.”

Criticizing Washington for putting pressure on Iran by imposing different kinds of sanctions against it over the past decades, Asi says such hostile policies come while the US has long been backing the Saudi kingdom, a major supporter of terrorism in the region.

“If the United States so despises and so hates and is so hostile to these groups called Daesh or ISIS or al-Qaeda and the metastasizing of all of these phenomena, why doesn’t it go after Saudi Arabia, why doesn’t it impose economic hardships that it imposed on the Islamic Republic of Iran during the past 36 years,” al-Asi concluded.

Sinnott, for his part, believes the United States has nothing to do with the rise of Takfiri terror groups in the region, and the unrest in the Middle East is rooted in the conflict between various Muslim sects.

He argues that it is the civil wars in the region that have forced millions of Syrians and Iraqis to leave their homeland and take refuge in other countries.

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