saudi arabia, egypt are some of the key nations. now cutting ties with qatar alleging the country has ties to terror groups, specifically isis and al qaeda. iran state news agent claims president trump is fueling the conflict following his trip to saudi arabia two weeks ago. i want to bring in international correspondent ian lee in turkey watching this. what spark ted this fight right now between these gulf states? wolf, it s been brewing for quite some time, but you name a number of the reasons why it has come to head. another one is the [inaudible] which is considered a terror organization. ian, i m going to interrupt for a second. we ll try to get back you to. unfortunately your audio is coming in and out. hard to understand. stand by, we ll try to fix that. we re going to stay on top of
united states what s going on. very important. because the u.s. regional headquarters of the u.s. military s central canned is in qatar. yes indeed. qatar is a platform from which many of our flights attack targets in iraq or syria also take off. we have strengthened our relations recently with saudi arabia after the cooling that took place during the obama administration. now we are in the middle of this big crisis and ca cqatar is see to improve relations with iran. that s really what s going on right now. the u.a.e., the united arab emre emirates they are that s fueling this rift. the terror rate, the more opportunity it will provide to iran to improve relations with
this story. the diplomatic dust that s unfolding in the middle east right now. the latest on the terror attack in london. joining us is the former united states ambassador to the united nations. also a former ambassador to both afghanistan and iraq. mr. ambassador, thanks very much for joining us. wolf it s good to be with you. it s pretty extraordinary that these arab states are cutting ties with qatar. there have been differences of view between qatar and several other states. although of all the states of the gcc qatar and south arabia are the closest because their borders is mostly mohave countries, religious kind of extremists. but there has been over the years as you well know a lot of strains been saudi arabia and qatar because they have different interpretation. we don t have to get into that right now. but it s important for the
qatar. qatar may have started it by moving toward iran, but the more it s isolated to the rest, the more likely it is to go to iran. what about the charge that was leveled against qatar that they re funding isis and al qaeda among other terror groups? i ve seen some reporting based from saudi arabia and u.e. alleging that. we were concerned during the time that i was in the government about that. knowing exactly where an attack would take place almost beforehand because as soon as an attack took place, they would be there covering the attack by al qaeda. there have been concerns about the relationship between qatar and some of the extremist movement. right now i think the great concern that they really haven t talked a lot about is that qatar supports the muslim brotherhood in egypt and elsewhere. and i think u.a.e. is also very