Qatar Ambassador Appeals to Trump Admin via Twitter Following Trump and Tillerson’s Contradictions on Crisis

‘We Appeal to the US Administration to Rely on Their Own Sources’ 

Meshal Hamad AlThani, Ambassador of the State of Qatar to the United States, has turned to Twitter in a series of tweets to call on Donald Trump’s administration to “rely on their own sources.”  The tweets follow the contradictions between the president and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on the U.S. ally’s crisis.

This week, at least five Middle Eastern nations cut ties or disrupted diplomatic relations with our ally, which hosts 11,000 U.S. troops, prompting Donald Trump to take credit via his favorite social media outlet for what he claimed could be “the beginning of the end of the horror of terrorism!”

Following this, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson attempted to calm tensions among Arab partners, stressing that blockades in the region are a detriment to the campaign against ISIS, but as NPR pointed out, despite Tillerson’s opposition to blockades, “President Trump [seemed] to be upping the ante.”

During a joint news conference with President Iohannis of Romania, Trump reaffirmed his support for blockades in the region, again calling on Qatar to end its reported funding of terrorism. As U.S. Senator Chris Murphy pointed out:

Following the contradictions, Ambassador Meshal Hamad AlThani took to Twitter as well, advising that “Qatar’s principles and foreign policy reject the false ideology of terrorism,” and that our ally has been working with the United States on combatting terrorism for years.

“We appeal to the US administration to rely on their own sources and not on countries with political agendas,” AlThani tweeted. You can read the ambassador’s tweets below:

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