Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani
Appearances
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2154 - Stephen A. Smith ATTACKS Me!
Look, as a country, we always want to do the right things. And basically the right things, not only for our people, but for our people, for our region, and for our friends. And when you are trying to do the right things, Sometimes you change your mind when you hear this kind of criticism.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2154 - Stephen A. Smith ATTACKS Me!
But it wasn't really in our culture because we believe that it serves the real cause behind all these efforts is to bring peace. Peace for the people, peace for the regions. And peace for our friends.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
Thank you very much.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
Unbelievable. No one would handle such an attack. And we worked tirelessly on achieving this deal. And the moment we went out to announce that deal being achieved and we see the celebration in the streets, whether it's in Gaza or in Israel, that moment makes us forget everything.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
And that's basically, we said very clear, we respect everybody who's coming here as long as they are respecting the laws in that country, as you are expecting from the Qataris when they visit any of your countries in Europe, to respect your laws. And basically that's what we want from the people. Anything happen in their personal life, it's their personal life.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
Well, there are like some voices who unfortunately very much misinformed that this is very critical for the U.S., for the U.S. security to be here in this region. And, you know, actually the base itself, when it's moved, the first place it was moved after September 11th. Yes. To Doha. And it was a very risky decision for any country to take it. And we took it.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
We took it because of the friendship that we have with the U.S., because of the partnership that we are committing ourselves together with the U.S. And it turned out to be like the most important U.S. base outside the United States. And basically it served the security of the United States, but also it served the stability of this region.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
Well, you know, sometimes when you read the reports about Qatar, you feel that this is a superpower that controls everyone and everyone is a tool in the hand of Qatar. Look, this is all a joke. Steve is a respected businessman. He has done business. We didn't do anything wrong with him. We have done business. I've known him for a long time. I attended his son's wedding.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
I have a personal relationship and all this happened before even the election, you know, before the election taking place. This was, I think, last February, just months before the election. And this friendship and relationship, it means that there is a trust between two people.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
And this trust will, of course, matter for, you know, the working relationship that we have and partnership that US and Qatar has. And it benefited the deal at the end of the day. The man traveled all the way. He stayed here. He spent a few days in Doha. He participated with us in the negotiation. He pushed when it was required. He did a great job.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
But nothing should happen in public against the laws of the state of Qatar. And we will never change. The problem that those countries and NGOs put a lot of efforts in demonizing this World Cup in order to impose their values, yet there were many things happening around the world, and they are just turning a blind eye.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
We, as, you know, as partners, we achieved the deal at the end of the day. The deal wouldn't be achieved without, you know, with Qatar single-handedly or with the United States single-handedly. He needs all of us. All of us are one team and work together now. People are attacking him for his relation with Qatar and being a tool in Qatar.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
If you go back and trace back, those people who are not interested in having a deal, not interested in having, they put their political interests ahead of the interests of even the hostages themselves. How many families in Israel celebrated the return of their loved ones. I'm not going to talk about Gaza. There's hundreds of thousands of people. They've been fed after a very long war.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
But just, you know, if you look at this and look at the ones who attacked someone like Steve Whitcow, who achieved and succeeded reaching this deal because of his relation with Qatar, is to make sure that the next time He calculated his steps. But Steve is a great man, straight shooter. It doesn't matter for him as it doesn't matter for us. We are friends, yes.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
This is something I feel proud of, that I have many friends in the United States. And those friends might become, you know, in certain positions, whether in this administration or in the future administration. doesn't mean that those friends will be like a tool in our hand or Qatar hand. And basically,
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
The people who are using this, they just, you know, the problem that they cannot take it that a small country can get the results. They always have to think about an external factor that bringing them these results. And when they look at it as a small country and with this amount of resources, the first thing that will come to their mind, oh, they are bribing everyone.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
I'm a country like any other country. I'm operating like any other country. I protect my people's interests. I protect my region's interests. I protect my friends. And that's what will always continue the same way.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
Look, Tucker, what's really making me feel sad that the agreement that we have achieved on the 15th of January this year, is almost 95% the framework that's been agreed in December and the agreement that's been agreed in March, 24. And it took all these months in order to put it in motion. With the previous administration, we were working very closely, I mean,
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
The director of CIA is someone that I worked with, I respect a lot. And we did, you know, a lot of work together. The partnership was honestly, you know, an exemplary. But at the end of the day, I think it's the calculations of one party over the other
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
If they put some efforts and energy on those real issues that affecting the human lives around the world, It would be much better than the waste investment that was in campaigns against the country to change its values, to impose new values which are not even related to us.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
that why would i do it now let me wait and then president trump of course they know there is no like there is no deal happening before the inauguration as he announced it might have a consequences and i believe that was that played a big role in this but the fact is they couldn't get a deal done and he did
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
I think this is, look, also the way that Steve has managed to represent President Trump was also a very effective way.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
Yeah, we are physically close. How close? It's around 120 miles away.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
Yeah. It's just, you know, you can have a boat ride in 90 minutes, you are there.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
Look, it's, you know, Iran has a lot of problems with the West. We understand that. We acknowledge that. They have problems with the region, with countries in the region, yes. At the end of the day, Iran is our next door neighbor. And we have to have to maintain a good relation with all our neighbors. We have a lot of things.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
in common when it comes to the gas field, the largest gas field in the world. It's a partnership between us and Iran. It's two-thirds of it in the Qatari territory and one-third is in the Iranian territory.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
Yeah, this is the one in the Gulf Sea. I have to coordinate on environmental issues like, for example, the water contaminations. I have to coordinate on security issues like smuggling. I have to have this relationship, this working relationship with Iran.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
But also when you think about it from a bigger perspective, it's for the interest of the region to have a better relation for everyone in the region with Iran. And you have seen that there is a huge progress in the relationship between Iran and the GCC in the last few years.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
And basically, even the disagreement that we had in certain policies, for example, we worked against each other in Syria for 14 years.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
And the same thing in Lebanon. And those differences are... Put aside, when it comes to the bilateral, we made the bilateral as a relationship of necessity that we need to have this engagement together all the time. Those disagreements, we talk about them, we try to understand each other's concern, and we try to find a common ground.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
And basically, that's what we expect from other countries to do when they are around neighbors that some others have disagreements with. You need to engage. Now, this is criticized in the U.S. that we are close to Iran. In terms of what? In terms of policies that have controversies with the U.S.? It's not true. Our policy has been very clear. Our policy is based on principles.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
Our policy has zero enemies. We have to have friends with everyone. We would like to see peace in our region. We would like to see peace around the world. If we see innocent people under attack, whatever their backgrounds, We will always help them and we'll support them. These are the things that our foreign policy is standing for.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
So if they see me that, you know, this is like putting me on a club on the other, they are watching me from thousands of miles away. They don't know what's happening in this region. They have no knowledge about it. This relationship, it's an important relationship, not for me, for the entire GCC and for the entire GCC stability. Look, Tucker, I think that there is a misunderstanding.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
Or let's say maybe it's more about a legacy issue. That the U.S. needs to take care of the whole world problem. This shouldn't be the case. Each region needs to address their own problems, needs to make sure that this region is stable. The U.S. is the friend and the ally and partner of all the GCC countries. So the U.S. expects from us
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
to come to them with vision that this is the way we would like to see the region. And that's the way we are going to work on the region. And we would like to have also your support in that direction. That's, I believe, how the relationship should work between us and the U.S.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
Not, I'm waiting for the U.S., what's the problem between them and Iran, and then I based my dealing with Iran based on what the U.S. want. The U.S. is waiting to listen to me, what I need from Iran, because I am the friend of the U.S., and Iran is my next-door neighbor.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
And basically, I think this misunderstanding, or let's say the legacy issue, that's what's driving this whole narrative floating here and there. I think that, you know, one day everything will be resolved diplomatically. If I take a stand against my neighbor because of an external issue, very strong stand, what I'm going to do if those two adversaries come together?
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
Well, look, actually, a nuclear weapon is bad for the region, for any country, whether it's Iran or any other country. But also, like, when it comes to, you know, developing a nuclear program, there are concerns, of course, whenever any nuclear program is developed around your region. And those concerns can be not only military concerns, but also security and safety concerns.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
As I mentioned to you, if the water is contaminated, the nuclear facilities of Iran are on the other side of the coast. It's closer to Doha than Tehran itself. So the risks and the threats is affecting me, my country, affecting other countries in the GCC more even.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
Yeah. And that's basically, you know, that's why it's putting the entire region in a lot of risk. There is no clear standards for managing those nuclear facilities. And those clear standards ensuring that this is a nuclear power plant that will be used for peaceful use. Now, who's right and who's wrong, this is not for me to judge.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
Yet, what we would like to see, we would like to see a nuclear program that have complying with the international standard. We are speaking with the Iranians all the time that we need to work together, we need to work with the IAEA in order to ensure that those standards are followed. There are a lot of news and headlines. We see that Iran is close to a nuclear weapon.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
This is nothing we have ever heard, we have ever seen, I mean, or experienced. Even our engagement with the leaders there, even with the Supreme Leader, he said very clearly that he has issued a fatwa or a declaration that Iran will never go for a nuclear bomb. And basically, this has also its moral status within the country.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
So I hope that we can reach to a solution, a diplomatic solution, where there is prosperity for the region, sanctions are lifted, nuclear program is peaceful, and assurances for the entire region. And this will be, I think... a booster for the region development and prosperity.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
Well, I think it's mainly driven by an agenda that these are the things that we would like to see in countries that they are not accepting it, you know, and societies that they are not accepting it. We need to make it normal for them. We need to normalize it. A lot didn't accept the fact that Qatar is a small Arab country, can host a world-class tournament.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
Well, I think it will just be a start of a war that will spread all over the region. And basically, do we expect from any country to get attacked and to stay silent? There will be a reaction. Those reactions and retaliations, where is it going to be? Are they going to reach thousands of miles away? They are going to be in the region.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
And basically every country in the region are concerned from such a step because it will affect our security, number one. But also for a country like the U.S., it will affect their security as well. They have a big stake in that region, whether it's in military bases, whether it's in energy facilities in that region, economic interest. forget about everything, educational facilities.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
So all those interests will be affected if something, God forbid, erupts in that region. Look, there is no way that Qatar would support any kind of military step. in that region. And we will not give up until we see a diplomatic solution between the US and Iran. This needs to reach to an agreement.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
This will be basically entirely contaminated. We have run this exercise of risk in the country. A few years ago, before we built our reservoirs, we had the water that we use for our people is from desalination. And we don't have rivers. We don't have water reserves. And basically, the country would run out of water in three days. The whole country? The whole country.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
now after the reservoirs we increase that capacity and we are keep increasing it but this is not only applied for qatar this is applied for qatar this is applied for kuwait this is applied for uae it's all of us in that part so if that nuclear site gets blown up and nuclear material winds up in the water none of those countries have water No water, no fish, nothing. It has no life.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
It is an environmental catastrophe. That's why I'm telling you that the position of Qatar in the map and the region with Iran... A lot of people, they don't even understand. I remember once I went to visit the U.S. Congress and I was meeting with one U.S. senator. And we were talking, discussing about Iran. He said, basically, you don't have to deal with them. And I drew for him a map.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
on his desk, for the first time he realized that this is, these two countries are that close to each other. So there are a lot who doesn't see this region as close, you know, to Iran and like it's too intertwined.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
No, they do have maps, but probably they don't know how to spot Qatar. We are very small.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
Well, I think it is achievable. And actually, all the engagement that we had with Iranian officials, as I mentioned to you, We were just there a few days ago, actually, and engaging with the president, engaging with the Supreme Leader, with the foreign minister over there, in order to find a diplomatic solution. And basically, they are willing to engage.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
Basically, they were like, you know, how a lot of attacks that why Qatar won the World Cup, like they don't have even the culture of the World Cup. I don't know what's, you know, what does it mean if... If I am a country, like a marginal country, I don't have the right to host a world tournament. And this is more about, honestly, I see it like more racism and superiority.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
They are willing to get to a level that creates comforts for everybody. And most importantly, they are focused on mending their relationship with the region. And that's something in itself. It can create a lot of progress in every front with Iran. So I believe there is an opportunity. Now, We, you know, we come back to the question, the chicken and the egg, which come first.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
I believe we should forget about these questions and, you know, get the parties together. Start to understand each other's concerns. And basically, if everything is complying with the international standards, I don't see any reason why we don't have a deal.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
Look, this issue is very controversial. First, as a principle for my country, for the state of Qatar, we see unilateral sanctions are ineffective. And it's punishment of punishing the people, not punishing a country or a regime. That's number one.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
Yes, yeah. I mean, if it would lead to a result, we wouldn't be in that situation until now.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
So just going back, sanctions, what does it create? It pressures the people. It starves them. It creates black markets. It creates a whole illegal system. If the sanctions are coming out of the U.S., it actually prevents all the U.S. interests or companies to have business and lose the opportunities for other countries. So I don't see a world where the sanctions work.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
Honestly, for us, as I told you, it's a core principle in our foreign policy. We refuse, we don't support sanctions at all. And sanctioning countries I'm talking about. And sanctioning countries is just making the situation much worse.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
Oh, yeah.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
Yeah. I think it's mainly it's sold in different means, in different currencies. And look, Tucker, I recall when The Russian sanction came out at the beginning of the war between Russia and Ukraine. I had an interview in one of the US media channels and I said very clearly that sanctions will only create a parallel marketplace for other currencies.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
And that's basically, I think, the main driver for this.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
So the dollar dominated international currency, you will start to see people moving, countries moving away from that. Yes. By the time. So it won't benefit. It won't benefit. It won't get you what you want. It's the contrary. That's basically what's been, you know, at the end, like any country like Venezuela, for example, or Iran, they need to survive. They need to feed their people.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
They need to survive. get, you know, at least the basic requirements that they want. They will find ways to sell their oils. They will find ways to use other currencies. They will find markets who will accept them and, you know, selling them and buying from them. And that's basically you created like a parallel market. And that's what I've been saying.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
Honestly, look, from at least, you know, my humble experience looking at all those sanctioned countries. In the last, let's say, you know, I always like to talk about my tenure in diplomacy, which is 10 years. In the last 10 years, I've seen a lot of sanctions floating around on a lot of countries. None of these sanctions has achieved the results that's intended for them.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
That's, like, factually true, right? It is factually true, yeah.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
Just, you know, if you go and name a single country that has a regime change... Yes. ...or an entire, like, behavior change to the good because of sanction, you will not find any.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
Well, it's unfortunate, you know, there are... The whole purpose of hosting the World Cup is to bring the world together in that country, to put the country in the spotlight about the football, about the tournament and about people coming together. Unfortunately, countries and some NGOs try to use this as an opportunity to attack
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
Well, look, as I told you, you know, when, you know, some, I don't know, honestly, we can ask this question more for U.S., you know, legislator and policymakers, but I think from my perspective, this is when you have, like, if you don't talk to the other party, if you don't want to use military, which is something that we never advise for,
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
The only tool will remain in your hand is sanction to show power and to show leverage, which some people, they think that this is leverage and power, which is not.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
Power is measurable, right? Actually, look, as you know, Just, you know, if you go through every sanctioned countries, it never achieved the objective. That's what I want to say.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
Well, look, you know, there is a lesson that history taught us. That there is no war started... with one of the parties wants the war. Always two parties, they don't want the war and they end up in a war. And there is no war ended without a negotiation around the negotiation table to find a peaceful solution, despite how long it took. So this war will end at the end of the day
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
around the negotiations. Now, if you look at the recent efforts that President Trump is doing and together with the Kingdom of Saudi, I believe this is the right direction, the right path forward. Because, you know, we were like when the war started as a state of Qatar, We always like to express our willingness to help, to support if there is any chance for mediation. We looked at it.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
It's something far away. It's in Europe. Yet we have some experience in mediation, which is a tricolour curve that we have built throughout the year. And we saw that this conflict is too complicated. We tried to break it down to smaller mediation efforts. And we were working on the children file, for example, Russian and Ukrainian children, bringing them back to their families.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
We were working on the energy file, but unfortunately it didn't work out. in order to build a foundation for, you know, someone like President Trump to come and to broker a peace deal. I believe it is the moment. I believe that the steps that's being taken are the right steps. And basically, the way it ends, it should be the way that it addresses both countries' concerns.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
Is that true? Well, it is true, actually. Sometimes when you have international organizations trying to impose certain conditions in order to give you the better status that will make you look good, It requires from you some steps that you will do that it's not even needed here in this kind of society. Look, Qatar is a very small country. The people here, family matters for us.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
I think that the Ukrainians have legitimate concerns that they need to address. And the Russians have legitimate concerns that the Ukrainians need to address. And I believe this will never reach a solution unless there is some, you know, direct talks between them and also some demonstration of support from the partners of
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
both Ukraine and Russia, that they need to put an end for this, and they need to understand each other's concern, and they need to take them in consideration. And the partners' role is to give them the assurances and the comfort that those considerations will be taken seriously.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
Well, it's, you know, at the end of the day, as I told you, it's... It's an issue between Russia and Ukraine, and they need to address it themselves. They need to get the assurances that both countries need. I think that even within the EU, not everyone is sharing the same opinion, I believe.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
But at the end of the day, they will come down to a conclusion that this issue needs to be settled peacefully, and this issue needs to take into consideration everyone's concerns.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
It's going back to the basics. You know, if you look at the history since Madrid Declaration in the 90s, where... Israel needed to be integrated in the region, economic normalization should happen between the countries in the region, and a political horizon for the Palestinians to establish their own state on the borders of 1967, which is according to the Security Council resolutions.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
Since that time until today, we didn't see anything, but the situation is going backward. More settlements, more violence, more, you know, policies which are destructive for the Palestinians, unfortunately. And basically, we are expecting from the Palestinians, you know, just to obey, to stay quiet. And not, you know, there will never be anything instigated.
The Tucker Carlson Show
War With Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar Is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It
This is normal, you know, when you have, you know, a situation that's lasting that long. to have this kind of turbulence all the time. And I'm not talking here about 7th of October, I'm talking about the entire period. How many wars we had? We had a lot of them. A lot of people, we hear them saying that we need to try something new.
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We need to try things that we are not even, you know, thinking about. Yes, we agree. The two-state solution. We've been talking about, we never tried this. Have we ever tried it and didn't work? Does this country that's established next to Israel will be a threat for Israel? It's a threat as long as it's not a country. And we said that we are willing to provide security guarantees for Israel.
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We... all of us, we will be integrated together as one region. And demilitarized Palestinian state, even. So it's not even like, you know, fully independent.
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So it's basically like everything you are offering. And in exchange, we will always like, you know, either because of their political situation in Israel, like we were always faced by rejections. There were just few leaders in Israel who had the courage to come out and to say that this is the only solution, this is the only way forward. But in the last few years, we didn't see any of them.
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Parents matter for us. We are indebted to our parents until the last day in their life or in our lives, whatever comes first. If someone will leave his parents alone without taking care of it, he will be publicly shamed by the society. It's not really an acceptable custom or habit in this country to have your elder, to have your parents staying in a senior home.
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I think, you know, look, President Trump, he's a great dealmaker. He's a great businessman. He's very successful. He made, brokered many deals around the world during the first administration. And I believe if we will have peace one day, this is the best opportunity for us with someone like President Trump.
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Well, if you see the largest exporter of LNG at net zero, I think there is something happening wrong.
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We are committed, first of all. Wait, aren't you supposed to pretend you're getting to net zero? Look, I'm not going to pretend anything that I'm not going to do, but the gas has proven that it is the most important reliable baseload source of energy for the next century, maybe. And the gas is much cleaner than a lot of other energy resources.
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and benefiting the environment benefiting a lot of countries switching from coal to gas and that's what we are producing that's what we are focusing on now countries who were just you know rushing to get to net zero and trying to impose some uh you know green policies that are not realistic they are attracting from those policies now yeah you see them like you know uh some of them they go they are going back to call
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So it's basically, also it's not fair when you try to impose these kind of regulations in countries that they have their resources not being developed, not being exploited, and they have no electricity even. like Africa, for example, and you want to make sure that, no, everything there is green, everything is to reach net zero, and you are not allowed to come and to exploit your energy.
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But I don't have electricity. So, the whole concept, I think it's, right now, there is a lot of debate, there is a lot of, you know, argument about it, and I'm not sure if the world will be able to achieve it. Look, we understand the danger of the climate, We understand the danger of the climate change, but it doesn't mean that we shoot ourselves in the foot. We need to think about it wisely.
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We need to think about it gradually. And look, Tucker, honestly, maybe I told you in a separate meeting that, you know, the pyramid of the needs of the people, first security. then food and water, then health, energy, education, education, strong economy, and then climate change and the environment. So we are living in a region that barely handling the three, like the three layers of foundation.
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And people like coming and, you know, trying to impose on us the tip of that. We need to make sure that our neighbors, our surrounding are secured. We need to ensure that they are fed. We need to ensure that they have enough health care. We need to ensure that they have a good education. We need to make sure that they have energy, access to energy in the first place.
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he's the one the parents are the ones who took care of us when we were children until we grew up to become independent and we should we have the duty to take care of them and that's really the genuine nature of the Qatari society so that's why you end up with something that you don't need. It's not according to your value. It's not according to your religion.
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Well, look, why did they say that? This actually happened to us twice. Once, when we started the gas exploitation, it wasn't yet the future of the energy. At that time, this was back in the early 90s. And we took the risk. Qatar was in a totally different economic situation at that time. We took a great risk. We put a lot of pressure on the country and the needs of the country.
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And apparently, the LNG picked up and became one of the main sources. Then, at the peak of the net zero and the green agenda, we announced the expansion of our production, which was back in 2018. And we decided to go on to invest.
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And at that time, you can read reports from the IMF, for example, that a lot of countries will end up with a lot of oil and gas, but with no money, because they will have no countries to sell the gas to, or they will have no markets to sell their oil to. And this was just in 2018. And like everyone was panicked.
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In the same year, we have announced that we are going to expand our gas field production. And we are hoping to double it by 2030. So from 77 million cubic ton, which was peaked in 2011 and continued being sustained until today, by 2030, we will reach 144 million. And that's basically will be the biggest.
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After 2050. Who made that? I mean, that's like... That's an IMF report, actually. It's not a projection for Qatar, but it was for the entire GCC.
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It's not. It wasn't. I mean, like, we had the debate about this within our government at that time. And we didn't believe it. We have seen that the requirement for the energy will just increase. We were watching the revolution in a lot of technologies, and we have seen that whether it's the green hydrogen, the blue hydrogen, the renewables, all of them, they can never be cost-effective.
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in the next 10, 15 years, and maybe more. And they will not be enough. The base load, you will always need an energy mix, and the base load of this mix will be the LNG, will remain always the gas.
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Well, I don't know, honestly. I mean, we were like, at the beginning when we have seen these reports, we were just questioning why they are doing that. But it was like part of the...
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global sustainability agenda and probably this is an idea that all international organizations agreed to promote and basically it's the same thing like you know when it comes to those organizations you always see a common agenda item that everyone is advocating toward the same direction look
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We have nothing against the green and the climate change. It's something that all of us, we need for our survival, for our planet, yes. But also we need to be realistic in our approach. We need to make sure that this progress is not harming us. It's benefiting us. It's not because... We want to make sure that the planet lasts forever, that our people doesn't last forever.
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I mean, it's basically, it's really a miscalculation. Now, another example I want to give you, like, for example, in our partnership with the U.S. in the gas area, we have, during, you know, the time before, like the fracking and the shell gas in the U.S., we were supplying the U.S.
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But we build it anyway to get the fancy branding.
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with energy at a certain point of time, and we built this, what's so-called the Golden Pass in Texas, in order to be a receiving terminal for the gas. During President Trump's time in
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in the first administration we signed with him we signed during his administration to make it as a sending terminal so all the gas the u.s gas will will be exported through that terminal which is a partnership between qatar energy and excel mobile so to explain you take natural gas out of the ground it's often found with oil but then you have to basically freeze it yes and make it
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That's what you're talking about. Liquefied natural gas, yes. And then you have also beside that during the same meeting when during the previous administration or the President Trump, the first one. we have signed the largest, single largest petrochemical plant in the world. It's called the Golden Triangle, which hopefully will be online very soon.
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And that's what will provide the basic feedstock for all the industries in the United States, which is the polymers. And this is also a partnership between Qatar Energy and US companies.
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like who are adopting the green agenda when they are talking about electricity, for example, generating electricity from green energy, green resources. Those electricity will need batteries. Batteries will need lithiums for the AVs. This lithium, when you mine those lithium, what is the effect on the environment? Oh, I know. And if you calculate it, it's much worse for the planet and for the land
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than the oil and the gas combined, and maybe from the coal as well. So it wasn't really well thought of. It was something that I believe was taken to a direction that doesn't serve the interest of the entire world.
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Well, it can be a reason. Honestly, I don't know what is really the purpose behind this, but we see that, you know, a lot of things that are happening are attacks on humanity in general. It's...
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It keeps us up all night. Does it?
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Me too.
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Thank you very much. I appreciate it. Thank you.
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When you lose the family value, when you lose the connection between the family themselves, you will lose the connection between the people as well, on a broader level, on the people in the same neighborhood, on the people in the same region, in the same countries. And that basically will just make us, you know, as individuals who are, quote unquote, independent from anyone.
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That's what we will feel. yet it will just make our societies vulnerable and easy to be penetrated. That's right. And that's, I think, the main issue that we are facing and the main threat that we are facing. You have seen, Taker, you spent now a few days in Qatar and you have seen, you came to my home and you have seen that my home is surrounded by my family homes.
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And I'm not really living in isolation from them. No, you're definitely not. The nuclear family, the bigger family, and it's all one community, one... one family and basically you can apply this and magnify it to the entire country. This is not the case for Muhammad. This is the case for everyone here.
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People, even when they move temporarily to another neighborhood or to another place, 10 minutes away from their family, they feel homesick. So we believe that this is supposed to be the case for all the countries where families' bonds matter. Families' bonds really create from your society a strong society that's not easily penetrated.
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on values of the society itself, on the values of the country, of the community, by using it as an opportunity to change these values and to impose their own values on our country and our people. That's something that was expected from our side that we will be attacked. We will be hearing a lot of lectures about values and things that are not belongs to us.
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And that's what creates the national unity as well in the face of external threats and everything.
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Yeah.
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You can be penetrated, yes. Very true.
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Look, as a country, we always want to do the right things. And basically, the right things, not only for our people, but for our people, for our region, and for our friends. And when you are trying to do the right things, Sometimes you change your mind, you know, when you hear this kind of criticism.
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But it wasn't really in our culture because we believe that it serves the real cause behind all these efforts is to bring peace. Peace for the people, peace for the region. and peace for our friends. And basically, the peace is the main foundation for us, for our people to prosper. And peace has a lot of enemies.
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A lot of enemies who wants to undermine it for political reason, who wants to undermine it for economical reason, who wants to demonize your effort in order to make sure that every step you will take will be suspicious in order to control also the parties that you are helping in that and basically they don't know by doing such a thing they are not harming us but they are harming
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the region, and they are harming our friends, including the United States. And having an ally and partner and friend like Qatar with the air base as one example, and working together very closely on
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a lot of issues, a lot of files, helping bringing Americans home from different countries, whether it was in the evacuation in Afghanistan, whether it's in American hostages all around the world, mediating in different conflicts. They basically, if they keep criticizing Qatar and attacking Qatar, They think that this is just harming Qatar and Qatar reputation. It's not.
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It's actually because we always like, you know, we go back to the results. We focus on the outcome and we think about it that that should be our objective and we should focus there and we shouldn't really disturb ourselves with any noise. But they don't know that this is harming the U.S. and the U.S. interest at the end of the day.
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We have to go back to the root of this office. Like, why it's here in the first place? And Hamas office, when it was opened here in the first place, it was opened with full transparency and full consultation and actually even request from the U.S. The U.S.
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They are, actually. They have asked us to open the channels with them and to have an established communication channel with the same case what was applied to Taliban as well. And look, at the end of the day, if you have a presence of someone in your country and you are engaging and talking, it doesn't mean that you are endorsing his ideas. It doesn't mean that you are supporting him.
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And basically, our decision from the beginning that we don't need to change the country for one month tournament. And I cannot change the value of a whole society and impose on them values that I don't believe in. And it's against every principle in our society, against the principles of Islam, against the principles of Christianity as well.
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We are, the purpose of this office was to facilitate peace, to stabilize the region, and to make sure that always it's serving the purpose. And you can go through even everything that, all the events that happened in the recent 10 years since the office was officially opened here in Doha. How many peace deals been brokered from that office through that channel? Many of them.
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2014 was the discussion and the negotiations was initiated here and ended in Egypt. In 2018, 2020 and 21 with all those escalations and many of escalations that we avoided to prevent a war. There are many, plenty of them. You will lose count. Then after 7th of October, the first hostage deal that released the hostages, the women and children, and the foreigners, was 109 hostages.
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November 23 happened through that office. The second hostage deal, which we are going through right now, was produced out of this office. So the office is a communication channel. And it doesn't make me, you know, feeling shy that I speak with someone whom I have a disagreement with. President Trump spoke with North Korea. He didn't shy out. He met with him. He engaged with him.
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He wants to put an end for the conflict. He wants to make a deal with him. He's a dealmaker. And this country basically is brokering deals.
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Yes. And it continued like everything that we did. Look, Tucker, what I'm confident that... Throughout the years that I've been working under the leadership of the Emir, we are sure that every step we are taking, we are very transparent, coordinating with the U.S. and making sure that we are doing the right thing. So I have nothing wrong that I did that I am shying away from.
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I know that we have a lot of attacks and unfortunately we have attacks from the US legislation, like from the Congress many times that although we did it at the request of the government, yet The emir always tells me that if we are able to save a single life, it's worth everything. And I'll tell you something. We've been under a significant attack in the last 15 months during this war in Gaza.