A senior Qatari official, who has labored for years within the Gulf state’s ministry of overseas affairs, informed CBS News on Wednesday that the Middle East has, “for all intents and purposes,” been engulfed in a regional war that governments within the area warned about for years.
Dr. Majed Al-Ansari, an adviser to the Qatari prime minister and the official spokesperson for the nation’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, informed CBS News that Gulf states had warned for years that, left unchecked, escalations that first hit Syria, and then Gaza and Lebanon, risked spiraling into one thing a lot greater.
In Doha’s view, that dire prediction has now come true.
“We said very clearly that escalation left unchecked will result in a regional war,” he informed CBS News. “What we have right now is, for all intents and purposes, a regional war.”
Iran, he mentioned, has focused seven Gulf international locations because the U.S. and Israel launched their assault on the Islamic Republic on Feb. 28, pulling international locations right into a war they by no means wished to be part of.
Al-Ansari mentioned Qataris’ actuality has been shaken as missile alerts now mild up individuals’s telephones in a single day and interceptors fly overhead.
“This is now a daily occurrence,” he mentioned. “We are awakened at 4 a.m. by alerts on our phones.”
“I would have never expected for my daughters to live in a situation where missiles would be overhead almost constantly throughout the day,” al-Ansari mentioned.
