Speaking at the National Republican Congressional Committee fundraising dinner in Washington, Trump sought to rally party members, acknowledging historical trends in which incumbent presidents typically lose seats but insisting Republicans would defy expectations.

“We’ll have bigger majorities in the House and Senate than we do today”. The remarks came as Democrats scored a symbolic victory in Florida, where Emily Gregory flipped a state legislative district that includes Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, underscoring shifting political dynamics in a traditionally Republican stronghold.

House Speaker Mike Johnson indicated the party’s fortunes were closely tied to Trump’s leadership, presenting him with what he called the first “America First award” at the event.

The ongoing conflict with Iran has contributed to rising fuel prices and broader cost-of-living concerns, complicating the political landscape for Republicans. Gasoline prices have climbed to an average of $3.98 per gallon, up from under $3 before the conflict began, according to AAA.

Polling data from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows 59% of Americans believe U.S. military action against Iran has gone too far, while 45% report significant concern about affording fuel in the coming months.

Economic pressures extend beyond energy, with inflation expected to rise alongside higher borrowing costs and a weakening labor market. Employers cut 92,000 jobs last month, adding to voter unease over economic stability.

Some Republicans have voiced concerns about the administration’s communication and long-term strategy in Iran. Senator Lisa Murkowski said constituents were seeking clarity on the conflict and potential troop deployments, describing current messaging as insufficient.

Others urged patience, arguing that the political impact would depend on whether the administration achieves its strategic objectives, including curbing Iran’s nuclear ambitions and restoring stability to global energy routes such as the Strait of Hormuz.

Trump downplayed economic concerns as temporary, linking short-term disruptions to broader national security goals. He maintained that the military action was necessary despite its economic impact, framing it as a decisive move against Iran’s nuclear capabilities.

The political outlook for Republicans remains closely tied to developments in the conflict and their economic consequences in the months leading up to the elections.

This good cop, bad cop tactic against the Crown Prince and King of Saudi Arabia is unlikely to work.

So the White House takes the rare step and recognizes the role played by Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, popularly known as MBS, in extending a ceasefire in Yemen. The plan is now for a trip to Riyadh by American President Joe Biden. A bit late of Biden trying to reach out after publicly abusing and insulting the Saudi leadership.

But never mind—the White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters that Crown Prince Bin Salman and Saudi King Salman deserved credit for their roles in the truce extension. I guess thanks are due from the Saudi leadership for the graciousness being shown by the President of the worlds sole superpower.

The visit next month in July will focus on the aim of growing relations with Saudi Arabia at a time when Biden is trying to lower gas prices in the United States. Biden will also participate in a Riyadh summit of the Gulf Cooperation Council, a regional union whose members include Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.

What concerns some friends in Riyadh is that US and UK Muslim Brotherhood organizations have been toning down attacks on MBS and in some cases visiting Saudi Arabia with the blessings of the Biden Administration. Is the Muslim Brotherhood – despite being considered a terrorist organization by Saudi Arabia – again being used as a diplomatic proxy by the Democrats for outreach to overseas Muslim nations?

Rise of a confident Saudi Arabia

With the rise of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman — Saudi Arabian governing structures have become more centralized, remolded, and those who had a free hand and supporting overseas Muslim groups and organizations (most of which were rooted in political Islamism) are being reined in. 

Today understanding the role of Islam in the Saudi state and in public life in a more moderate and beneficial level for the average Saudi citizen is being promoted more and Saudis seem much more happier and freer to practice their religion and live their lives. 

Also encouragement of Saudis based on merit is increasing and leaving those who benefited without merit are being left aside. But there is still concern within Saudi Arabia as well as other Muslim nations like the UAE, Egypt and others that Islamist groups like the Muslim Brotherhood still have a hold within these nations. 

Islamists such as the Muslim Brotherhood (and its South Asian sister organization Jamaat-e-Islami) usually targets the educated middle and upper classes and civil society. This is why the former President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton promoted the Muslim Brotherhood to destabilize Arab nations through the ‘Arab Spring’.  They had willing accomplices.

Western Muslim Brotherhood activists, naive activist Muslims and non-Muslims were encouraged in the name of human rights and democracy—and given tools to reach into and support the Muslim activists within in North Africa and the Middle East. 

The Tunisian and Egyptian governments fell to the Muslim Brotherhood and other nations in the region became concerned. At the same time the same very Western Muslim Brotherhood activists started to play good cop/bad cop—some reached out to the Arab nations like Saudi Arabia to ‘assist’ them in tackling Islamist terrorism and helping them in their relations with the west. One of the cultured and connected British Muslim activists which I had met in 2011 mentioned that Arabs were like donkeys that needed to be milked dry!

Islamists in their talk about the Muslim community and the ummah simply seek power and money. They are primarily politicians and they will use—like other politicians—to get that power. Note how easy access the Islamists have had in the UK and US to senior government officials? Note how Islamists know how to use the Western systems to benefit themselves and their causes.

Saudis being generally more socially conservative and literal in their interpretation of the Quran—have also been trusting. This naivety and softness in Saudis dealing with Westerners—especially Islamists is coming to an abrupt end according to a retired Saudi diplomat. He mentioned that it will be a hard slog but MBS knows how to protect the people of the region and his country from the Islamists and their aiders.

Since the 2011 Arab uprisings aided and supported by President Barack Obama and his Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, when protests erupted across Jordan, Morocco, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Oman, and Kuwait. Western Muslims especially in the United States and United Kingdom with Muslim Brotherhood backgrounds and or links with such groups were used  and are still being used to cause problems for the Arab nations (which of course then the Americans can help out on).

The Art of War of the Arabs

Political shrewdness within the Arab leaders is growing and maybe this re-engagement with elements from the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist groups is being used as a tool to protect their nations. But then again what nation has successfully protected itself at engaging with extremists and terrorists (which is what the Saudis and Emiratis regard Islamists).

An ex-Saudi diplomat friend said Arab nations are placed into different categories by the Ikhwan (Muslim Brotherhood) and discussed how infiltration of these nations is being done and who is being targeted. I hope he will come out into the open to tackle what he considers a direct threat to his country by educating his fellow citizens.

He said that when he was in the United States in 2018 a senior US government official mentioned what nations were being targeted in the so-called Arab Spring – these included those with small populations and high reserves of natural resources such as Kuwait, Qatar, and the UAE to wealthy nations with a larger population Saudi Arabia, the economically vulnerable Oman and Bahrain—and Egypt with its large population, a fairly strong military.

The official also mentioned names of individuals that Hillary Clinton when she was Secretary of State used to ‘help plant’ pro US Muslim Brotherhood sympathisers directly within and around Arab leaders. He also mentioned the reason the Saudis and Emiratis banned the Muslim Brotherhood was for this reason. 

Again just like in 2011 Arab nations and leaders are being approached, to find out how their leaders are interacting with their populations and opposition movements – and information is being reported back to Washington DC.

Time for Change

Lessons of Islamists survival during and since the Arab uprisings show that they are opportunistic. They will use any and every way to get into positions where they can manipulate and get into power.

The era of political Islamist parties is coming to an end and the Arab world and the larger extent the Muslim world—countries like Pakistan and Indonesia should expect ‘Western Islamists’ to increase their overtures to the leaders within these nations.

The decline of political Islam in the Arab world is happening and there will be a lot of homeless Islamists needing a home. Maybe they are seeking to come to the West for asylum? 

The Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar sought to bring the MBS Act against the Saudis, to prohibit Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman—the younger de facto chief of Saudi Arabia from visiting to the United States excluding attending the United Nations headquarters in New York. Omar and her colleagues from the Democratic Party of President Joe Biden have sought to freeze the Crown Princes’ US property and limit any transactions associated with the United States. 

But whilst Biden’s trip is being planned in July 2022, now Omar is said to be reaching out to Saudis in peace overtures—a traditional Muslim Brotherhood tactic of divide and rule—using one side to attack and another to make peace. This good cop, bad cop tactic against the Crown Prince and King of Saudi Arabia is unlikely to work.

Crown Prince MBS and King Salman will meet President Joe Biden but the President and his advisors should know that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Saudis born in the last 40 years who know their friends and foes and will stand up for their nation and leaders and will refuse to be manipulated or divided by anyone.

Mohammed Abbasi is a London-based coach, speaker and writer. He is director of Association of British Muslims. He works for Football for Peace. He is a great fan of Sun Tzu, and he teaches the Art-of-War.

Disclaimer: Views expressed by writers in this section are their own and do not reflect Milli Chronicle’s point-of-view.

The emails provided new evidence on the huge conspiracy led by Qatar, in coordination with political Islam powers, against other countries in the region…

The emails of former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are declassified about two months before the 10th anniversary of the so-called Arab Spring that started in Tunisia. This timing indicates that nothing is left to chance in our region and that the conspiracy theory is not always an illusion as conspirators want their victims to believe. Rather, it is mostly a correct theory stemming from the everlasting fight over power and influence.

Hillary’s emails revealed the central role of the US in the chaos that erupted in Tunisia before spreading to other countries; Washington’s goal to enable political Islam to rule the countries whose regimes were overthrown; the US control over the Muslim Brotherhood; and Qatar’s vicious role in supporting this project with funds, armed terrorist militias and groups, and media platforms that are still carrying out sabotage plans to this day.

Qatar took on the role of an executive producer for a show about creative chaos. It attracted hordes of extras to shoot the scenes of bringing the Muslim Brotherhood to power. Meanwhile, the US was playing the role of the screenwriter and director from across the ocean. Political Islam was given the lead role in spite of its limited capabilities. Finally, and despite all the losses, this project was crowned with failure.

The efforts of the Qatari and Brotherhood propaganda platforms to question the accuracy of the contents of Hillary’s emails are useless. Everyone already knew about what was happening.

The emails of the former US secretary of state indicated that Egypt’s sovereignty and national unity, as well as its institutions and society, were all targeted, and that huge sums of money were paid to political activists and actors who shared the same pursuit; that the Muslim Brotherhood’s rule was neither patriotic nor democratic, but rather under the control of one individual, its supreme guide; that there was an agreement with the Brotherhood-backed President, Mohamed Morsi, to dismantle the Ministry of Interior, which is the symbol of the centralization of the state and its security and administrative status; and that Qatar and its foreign minister at the time, Hamad bin Jassim, had a hand in inciting chaos in Egypt.

The exposed emails also touched on Washington’s role in supporting terrorist groups in Libya in 2011, accusing the head of the Transitional Council at the time, Qatar-backed Mustafa Abdul Jalil, of being involved in the assassination order of Major General Abdel Fattah Yunus, who was the leader of the opposition, based on his alleged connection with Saif al-Islam Gaddafi. Hillary’s messages also confirmed the strong relationship between Washington and the terrorist Abdel Hakim Belhaj. The assassinated US ambassador in Benghazi, Christopher Stevens, used to call Belhaj “our son.” The declassified emails even exposed US-based Libyan businessman Omar al-Turabi, who appeared on Al Jazeera channel frequently, for providing NATO with coordinates to bomb sites in his country of origin, including the site where Saif al-Arab Gaddafi was killed on April 30, 2011.

The Clinton emails also revealed the US-Qatar-Brotherhood disruptive role in Yemen; the support provided to anarchists and people seeking to overthrow the state; the relationship of the US secretary, through her administration, with the Muslim Brotherhood; her team’s acclamation for Tawakkol Karman’s Nobel Prize; and her recommendation for Karman to become the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Yemen.

The emails provided new evidence on the huge conspiracy led by Qatar, in coordination with political Islam powers, against other countries in the region; Qatar’s destructive role that led to killing tens of thousands of people, displacing millions of Arabs, and wasting about a trillion dollars in the name of Arab Spring revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, and Syria; and Washington’s endeavor during Obama’s term to target all Arab regimes and nations without exception, including Bahrain, one of the most prominent allies of the US, by supporting the Iran-backed sectarian chaos. On the other hand, however, Clinton’s exchanges showed Saudi Arabia in a good light, as the Kingdom’s leaders at the time refused to compromise their principles and national security.

According to one of the documents, following the decision to send the Peninsula Shield forces to Bahrain to face the riots that took place in the country in 2011, Clinton called the Kingdom’s ambassador to Washington at the time, Adel al-Jubeir, and asked him, “Why are you going to Bahrain?”, to which he replied, “to provide moral support.” When Clinton threatened that this would impact Washington-Riyadh relations, he said, “Our forces on the bridge will enter today.” When Clinton called the then Saudi foreign minister, late Prince Saud al-Faisal, to discuss the matter with him, he hung up the phone on her.

Saudis understood the plan targeting the region and the huge conspiracy being hatched and implemented with the participation of the American ally. In one of her emails, Clinton said, “Saudis no longer trust us to take their interests into account or to protect them from their enemies. In December 2002, (…) the U.S. prepared to invade Iraq against the forcefully expressed advice of then Crown Prince Abdullah.”

Qatar took on the role of an executive producer for a show about creative chaos. It attracted hordes of extras to shoot the scenes of bringing the Muslim Brotherhood to power.

Charles W. Freeman, who was the US ambassador to Riyadh during the Gulf War, was more insightful about Saudi Arabia. In a letter to Clinton about the Kingdom and its people, he said, “(…) Saudi Arabia (…) is the only society on the planet not to have been penetrated by Western colonialism. No European armies breached its borders (…). When Westerners finally came to Saudi Arabia, we came not as the vindicators of our presumed cultural superiority, but as hired help.”

“Unlike some other countries in the Arab Gulf, Saudi Arabia has invested its oil wealth at home, not abroad, though it has long been generous with foreign aid. (At one point it was donating six percent of GDP to other, mostly Muslim, nations.)”, he added.

The efforts of the Qatari and Brotherhood propaganda platforms to question the accuracy of the contents of Hillary’s emails are useless. Everyone already knew about what was happening, with the exception of a few minor details. Besides, the relationship between Clinton’s administration, the Doha regime, the Muslim Brotherhood, and terrorism is already publicly known with ample evidence, and this is just the tip of the iceberg.

The deep state in the US cannot, of course, disclose all documents and reveal all its practices, despite domestic conflicts between its two prominent parties fighting over power. Otherwise, the US would expose its disregard for ethics in its relations with others, especially its allies, as clearly happened in the so-called Arab Spring revolutions.

This article was first published on Al-Arab, and translated by Al Arabiya.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that he had tested positive for COVID-19 and was going into isolation.

Trump has mild symptoms, according to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. But the diagnosis, less than five weeks before the Nov. 3 election, has raised questions about what happens if a presidential candidate or the president-elect dies or becomes incapacitated.

Here’s how U.S. law and party rules address those scenarios.

Can the Nov. 3 election be postponed?

Yes, but that is very unlikely to happen. The U.S. Constitution gives Congress the power to determine the election date. Under U.S. law, the election takes place on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, every four years.

The Democratic-controlled House of Representatives would almost certainly object to delaying the election, even if the Republican-controlled Senate voted to do so. The presidential election has never been postponed.

What happens if a candidate dies ahead of the election?

Both the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee have rules that call for their members to vote on a replacement nominee. However, it is likely too late to replace a candidate in time for the election.

Early voting is underway, with more than 2.2 million votes cast, according to the U.S. Elections Project at the University of Florida. The deadline to change ballots in many states has also passed; mail ballots, which are expected to be widely used due to the coronavirus pandemic, have been sent to voters in two dozen states.

Unless Congress delays the election, voters would still choose between the Republican Trump and Democrat Joe Biden even if one died before Nov. 3. If the winner is deceased, however, a new set of questions emerges.

What happens if a candidate dies before the Electoral College votes?

Under the Electoral College system, the winner of the election is determined by securing a majority of “electoral votes” allotted to the 50 states and the District of Columbia in proportion to their population.

The Electoral College’s electors will meet on Dec. 14 to vote for president. The winner must receive at least 270 of the 538 total Electoral College votes.

Each state’s electoral votes typically go to the winner of the state’s popular vote. Some states allow electors to vote for anyone they choose, but more than half of the states bind electors to cast their votes for the winner.

Most state laws that bind electors do not contemplate what to do if a candidate dies. Michigan’s law requires electors to vote for the winning candidates who appeared on the ballot. Indiana law, by contrast, states that electors should switch to a party’s replacement if the candidate has died.

In the event of a candidate’s death, the opposing party might challenge in court whether bound electors should be allowed to vote for a replacement, said Lara Brown, the director of the Graduate School of Political Management at George Washington University.

“The most interesting question is really going to be, how will the Supreme Court handle a controversy like this?” she said.

But Justin Levitt, a professor at Loyola Law School, said he viewed it as unlikely that a party would try to defy the will of voters if it was clear a particular candidate won the election.

What if a winner dies after the Electoral College has voted, but before Congress has certified the vote?

After the Electoral College votes, Congress must still convene on Jan. 6 to certify the results. If a presidential candidate won a majority of electoral votes and then died, it is not entirely clear how Congress would resolve the situation.

The Constitution’s 20th Amendment says the vice president-elect becomes president if the president-elect dies before Inauguration Day. But it’s an open legal question whether a candidate formally becomes the “president-elect” after winning the Electoral College vote, or only after Congress certifies the count.

If Congress rejected votes for a deceased candidate and therefore found no one had won a majority, it is up to the House of Representatives to pick the next president, choosing from among the top three electoral vote-getters.

Each state delegation gets one vote, which means that even though Democrats have a majority, Republicans currently hold the advantage in a contingent election, as they control 26 of 50 state delegations. All 435 House seats are up for election in November, so the makeup of the next Congress is still unknown.

No winning candidate has ever died after the election but before inauguration. The closest instance came in 1872, when Horace Greeley died on Nov. 29, weeks after losing the election to Ulysses Grant. The 66 electoral votes that Greeley earned ended up largely split among his running mate and other minor candidates.

What happens if a president-elect dies or becomes incapacitated after Congress has certified the result?

Under the U.S. Constitution, a president-elect is sworn in on Jan. 20, Inauguration Day, two weeks after Congress certifies the result. If the president-elect died, the vice president-elect would be sworn in on Jan. 20.

Joe Biden has spent nearly 50 years on the political stage. In that time, he has repeatedly proven that he is no ally to Israel. The Biden platform is a delicate balance of establishment Democratic talk points when it comes to Israel. It is rare you get a candidate with this extensive of a political record; it would be criminal to ignore it.

American voters must look past the campaign and focus on Biden’s time in the Senate and as vice president.  In 1982, prime minister Menachem Begin testified in front of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Then-senator Biden told Begin that US aid to Israel could be cut off if actions in the West Bank did not cease. 

Begin responded, “Don’t threaten us with cutting off your aid. It will not work. I am not a Jew with trembling knees. I am a proud Jew with 3,700 years of civilized history. Nobody came to our aid when we were dying in the gas chambers and ovens. Nobody came to our aid when we were striving to create our country. We paid for it. We fought for it. We died for it. We will stand by our principles. We will defend them. And, when necessary, we will die for them again, with or without your aid.” Biden slammed on the dais, clearly angry with what Begin was saying.

Begin continued, “This desk is designed for writing, not for fists. Don’t threaten us with slashing aid. Do you think that because the US lends us money it is entitled to impose on us what we must do? We are grateful for the assistance we have received, but we are not to be threatened. I am a proud Jew. Three-thousand years of culture are behind me, and you will not frighten me with threats. Take note: we do not want a single soldier of yours to die for us.”  

All American Jews and those claiming to be allies of Israel should know of this exchange. When Biden states he will not threaten Israeli aid, this moment should be brought up every time. To those who wish to ignore this hearing due to its age, you do not get to choose when Biden’s career began. Biden was already in his second term in the Senate when he attacked Begin. He was not ignorant of the issue; he was a senator in 1973 when Richard Nixon green-lighted Operation Nickel Grass to helped Israel in the Yom Kippur War.  

Biden’s career as vice president was not any better for Israel. The Obama administration oversaw the lowest point in the US-Israel relations since Israel’s establishment in 1948. Biden was party to regular leaks of Israeli intelligence and political attacks targeting Israel on the global stage. In 2010, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the US to mend relations. The prime minister was taken in and out of the White House through a side door with no official media related to the visit. 

Biden also worked to pass the Iran nuclear deal, which Israel heavily opposed. There are reports that in a 2014 meeting, Obama threatened to shoot down Israeli fighter jets should they target facilities in Iran.

Biden does not get to run on the Obama-Biden record and play coy to these events. It is no coincidence that a month before Netanyahu addressed the House of Representatives, the Obama administration decided to declassify a 386-page report on Israeli nuclear capabilities. The report left details on France, Italy and other NATO nations’ programs blacked out.

During Netanyahu’s stay in Washington to address Congress, the White House declined to meet with Netanyahu. The White House claimed this was standard policy due to Netanyahu nearing an election. During the same period, Biden and secretary of state John Kerry traveled to Munich to meet with Labor leader Isaac Herzog, Netanyahu’s opponent in the election. 

To paint a clear picture of how Biden sees Israel, he once gave a speech on how Israel was damaging peace negotiations in the region hours after a terrorist killed 21 people in a Jerusalem bus bombing. Biden views Israel as a prop; he has no real care for the country or its security. If he did care, he would not have sat by as the Obama administration pursued policies the Israelis warned would put their safety in danger. 

We should reject Biden’s rhetoric and look at his record. With nearly 50 years to reflect on, Biden does not get to tell us what a Biden administration would look like; we have already seen it.

Judah Waxelbaum is the western regional vice chair for the College Republican National Committee. He tweets under @JudahWaxelbaum.

The key question here, above all, is why should an American citizen care about the Middle East and North Africa in the first place?

Well, there is one overwhelming reason, which is that what happens in the Middle East must reflect negatively or positively on the American citizen, whether from the political, economic or military side, and even from the angle of the continuity of the United States as the leader of the new world.

Open Market

The world is crowded with all types of goods from different countries of the world, and the United States needs to increase the commercial market for its various goods, and this is necessary in order to sustain the stability of the US economy and generate jobs. The Middle East and North Africa is a developing market and it is still for a long time to come, capable of expanding, importing and producing a lot.

Energy and Oil

Although the world is experiencing an abundance of global fossil energy production resources, the United States needs to maintain the stability of its influence in the Middle East, which accounts for approximately 69% of global oil production, according to announced estimates.  Although the United States’ share in oil production has increased and its dependence on imports decreased, this will never be sufficient to ensure American economic stability. In light of the free market strategy on which the United States relies radically, ensuring the stability of the oil market depends mainly on the production of the Middle East.

International Strategy

With regard to conflict and strategic competition with China and other major poles, the stability of the United States’ influence on energy sources in the Middle East and North Africa is essential.

Security

Terrorism represents one of the major dangers threatening the United States and the world, and it is the main threat in the Middle East, where the theocratic Iranian regime officially adopts terrorism, and Tehran is a meeting point and the backbone of all terrorist organizations such as Hezbollat, Al-Qaeda, ISIS, the Muslim Brotherhood and Al-Nusra Front.

What gave Al-Qaeda the appropriate opportunity to carry out the 9/11 terrorist attacks was the extensive logistical support it received from Iran through a mutual commitment by two parties not to attack one another, and Iran’s hosting of leading elements of Al-Qaeda.

Why Democrats Should Not Win November 2020?

The United States represents the greatest power globally, and regardless of some other powers that are trying to compete the United States influence in the world and the Middle East, the United States still has the power to sustain its influence.

The ability of the United States to sustain its global influence has not been based on just the military power but through its ability to make deals and mutual understandings with all power globally, especially in the Middle East. For a century, the United States has been following a strategy that respects the essence of coexistence regardless of some errors that are widely controversial at the US and international level. Generally, both Republicans and Democrats have been following this strategy (Live and let others live).

Obama and Far Left

Before that day, everything related to Barak Obama was an American domestic affair for the Middle East and North Africa. 10 February 2007, was an ominous, the day Obama has announced his candidacy to the White House. It’s similar to the day the Iranian Anti-Islam leader, Shiite mullah Khomenei, the supreme leader of (IRGC) landed in Tehran coming from Paris on an Air France jet, 1 February 1979. 

2009 June 4, Obama as a US President gave his famous speech at Cairo University in Egypt, directing his speech to the Islamic world, especially the Middle East and North Africa.  The peoples of the Middle East and North Africa had no clue that that famous smile and flowery words of a honeyed flavor promising progress, prosperity and peace, were hiding the most evil figure ever, similar to Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini, but in the most deceptive way. Obama was a successful project of chaos. The famous Cairo speech was a prelude to the most sinister plans the region had ever faced.

Although the term “Creative Chaos” was known to elites around the world as a theoretical concept, Obama was professionally leading the Devil’s Orchestra, as Democrats began implementing on the ground in the Middle East and North Africa. The opportunity was perfect for Satan’s right hand to shake left one.

Iran (IRGC) Destabilising the Middle East

March 2, 2009, in response to Obama’s initiative, “Khamenei did not see a real change in Washington’s policy towards his country,” despite the US President Barack Obama’s pledge to a new beginning for relations with Tehran, adding that “changing the tone is not enough. Rather, the United States must implement what it calls for on the ground”.  The steps taken by the Obama administration to ease pressure and get out of his way to appease the Iranian regime the agents of choas in the Middle East at the time threw the Middle East into choas and emboldened Qatari and Turkish regime’s chaotic agendas in the region, while cementing Iranian influences in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon.  “Our people do not accept a proposal of negotiation. You can not talk to us like this”, Khamenei’s response.

To enhance the chances of threatening American influence in the region and tarnishing the reputation and prestige of the United States, the Iranian regime (IRGC) launched a series of insulting statements and actions against the world’s superpower, indifferent to any reaction from Washington.  The American response via US presidential spokesman Robert Gibbs was “a full evaluation will be needed with our policies, there are other initiatives”. Obama and the Democrats have shown US policy against Iranian policy as if they represent a republic of a small and marginal state on the world map, and the extreme weakness to the Iranians was strikingly provocative.

The United States has faced a continuous series of humiliating Iranian (IRGC) provocations that violate international law and human rights, that have been causing thousands of victims of American citizens and citizens of the Middle East and North Africa since 1979. Yet, Democrats humiliatedly continued to give the Iranians big rewards, not the last of which was surrender to the Iranians and handing Iraq over free of charge to the Iranians (IRGC) by announcing the withdrawal. Well, the withdrawal in and of itself was not the issue as it was a deserving desire of many American voters, but the withdrawal was through a refusal to cooperate and coordinate with the US allies in the region such as Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain and Jordan, all of these countries have been key allies of the US in the Middle East.

Since January 2009, the Democratic administration headed by Obama began a broad campaign of pressures against the governments around the Middle East and North Africa, political, economic and military.  It was a highly stupid plan. While the Iranian regime (IRGC), the most aggressive since the end of the Cold War, was being rewarded, excessive pressures were exerted on the governments of the region, which were mostly peaceful and desirous of peace, by aggressive means to impose Obama’s version of democracy on the peoples of the region.

The Middle East today became full of extremely dangerous terrorist militias affiliated with (IRGC) where the region has been seriously threatened by Al Qaeda and ISIS, who have been generated by the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood and trained by (IRGC).

On April 2, 2015, the completion of the nuclear deal was announced, which is considered the largest reward in history that a superpower at the height of its greatness offered to the enemy. The largest reward not only for the Iranian regime (IRGC), but was also a great reward for all competitors and adversaries of the United States such as China, Russia, Europe and all the spectrum of extremist groups around the world.

Betraying the US Allies in the name of “the Arab Spring”

The so-called “Arab Spring” was the lowest point in the curve of the US wisdom of policies. The governments allied with the United States or were more liberal in cooperation with the United States, were replaced with extremist religious governments and militias in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and Yemen. New problems were created to threaten American interests instead of dealing with one, which is the Iranian regime (IRGC).  It empowered the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood, other extremist religious organizations and far left revolutionary parties in the region that have been in consistent with the revolutionary vision of (IRGC) regarding the rejection of peace, and the rejection of coexistence, and the insistence on hostility toward the peoples of the region and toward the United States. Well, 22 new cases were a candidate to be new (IRGC) had the Obama project succeeded completely in the region.

Incredibly, the opportunity of such enormous planning and support (Creative Chaos), that could have directed to topple the Iranian regime (IRGC) to support the US allies inside Iran during the Green Revolution that erupted on 12 June 2009, was completely ignored. Instead, the policies of the Democrats administration was hostile to the US allies throughout the region.

The Fruits Of Obama’s Plan

The result of Democrats policies was a huge wide disaster. Other than further increase spread of Al Qaeda, ISIS and other militias affiliated with (IRGC), the Democrats caused civil wars, massacres, and complete or partial failure of the states, which caused millions of victims, dead, wounded, displaced and refugees throughout the Middle East and North Africa. The numbers of economic losses from this gruesome catastrophe similar to the holocaust reached a trillion dollar. Dramatically, threats against global energy sources have increased and the Middle East and North Africa became more complex than were originally complicated. Unfortunately you can see that on the map, as mere red-hot spots.

Growing Russian Influence In The Middle East

Iraq and Yemen were handed over to the (IRGC) the Russian-ally. Syria was handed over to the Russians and the (IRGC), and Ukraine was handed over to the Russians and Libya has been in the way. Those countries that have already engaged in understandings with the United States and were close to the US strategy have been smashed in favor of Russia.

Enable the Enemies of the United States

All that the Democrats have done was hand over the region to the powers of chaos instead of consolidating the US influence with the allies.  In addition to the increasing of terrorist groups, the matter has come to increase the threats against the main allies of the United States in the Middle East (Saudi Arabia and Israel), as (IRGC) tide reached the borders of Israel, and Saudi Arabia and the threats became greater than ever, leading (IRGC) obtaining outlets on the Red Sea, the Strait of Bab Al-Mandab and Mediterranean coasts.

The American People

I am confident that the American people are intelligent and peace-loving, but they have been subjected to the greatest operation of deception, concealment of information and the most dangerous exploitation of their economic and security concerns.

Historical Evidence: Desert Storm

Surprisingly, there is evidence that good cooperation and coordination between the United States and its allies is fruitful, cost-effective, and far away less costly.  The liberation of Kuwait from the Iraqi invasion in Desert Storm was an ideal coalition of what the United States could do and apply at its administration of the world.

The American-Saudi regional, and global understanding was deep on all levels, as military operations were launched on 16 January 1991 and ended with complete success on 27 February 1991. The coalition’s human direct losses were only 190, among – nearly – one million troops.  This war did not burden the American taxpayer, as the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Japan, Germany and South Korea bore most of the costs of this war, which costed nearly 61 Billion USD.  It was a smashing success.  Well, this is how the results of the fine-tuned good work should be supposedly. 

Wake Up Call: Donald Tump

The nomination of the US President Donald Trump on June 16, 2015 was a milestone in modern American history, and then his election victory was a staggering for political institutions, media and study centers in the United States.  Well, the Americans have decided to take the lead.  Trump was able to smoothly establish a new era internationally by opening up to the Islamic world forcefully through realistic and open understandings, which greatly enhanced positive communication between Americans and Muslim peoples, especially with the Saudis where the Saudis represent the centre of the Islamic world religiously and economically.

President Trump has done exactly what a leader of a superpower is supposed to do.  Restoring American prestige, holding global religious reconciliation, counter terrorism decisively, restoring strong influence in the Middle East and North Africa, more pressure and chances for China to respect the US leadership, securing more energy sources.

Objectively, I can affirm that the chances for peace, prosperity, and more cooperation with the United States and respect for its global leadership role have been decisively enhanced thanks to Donald Trump.

Turkei Al-Owerde is Editor-in-Chief and Political Analyst of the Herald Report. His knowledge of the religious undertones of most Muslim Terrorist Organizations makes his many “conflict analysis” a valuable source of information for many security experts from around the world. He regularly tweets under @Turki_AlOwerde.

Saudi’s intervention in Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain followed to further teach Obama that his “democratization efforts” are but a mirror which Saudi shattered.

The year was 2012 while the oil market was booming, the selling price reached around $100 per barrel by the end of the year. All oil producing nations including Iran and Turkey were the happiest, given that such a high price guaranteed returned profits, due to the high cost of production in these nations.

Furthermore, Iran’s influence and control in Iraq borders an occupation, during which they drained Iraq’s oil and filled their own coffers. One might argue, it’s a far fetched claim. However, such claim is supported by many examples, starting by the control of Iraqi oil fields by Iranian contractors, Iran’s theft of water through terraforming, Iran’s many radical militants which roam in Iraq unchallenged, even by the Iraqi army.

This surplus of oil wealth means more funds for Iran’s expansionist agenda, and the honey moon which they experienced with the U.S. through the Iranian nuclear deal, was an opportunity they were willing to take full advantage of.

Around 2013, Assad and his Iranian pals in death and blood lust felt confident enough to massacre the people of Ghouta in what came to be known as the “Ghouta massacre.” In this horrific war crime, Assad used chemical weapons (internationally prohibited weapons) in which 1,400 civilians were killed, most of them were children.

Saudi Arabia protested and protested, applied political pressure on the United Nations and the super powers (America and Russia). It called for an emergency meeting in the security council and called for an intervention to stop the inhuman killing of innocent people and children. The answer from Russia was a VETO in support of Assad, while the incompetent ally represented by the democratic party, which controlled the white house during Obama’s presidency was bitter and cold towards Saudi’s request.

Meanwhile Obama was busy celebrating the new “Shattering record” of U.S. oil production, which reached ten million barrels. In this time, when it seemed all was lost for the Kingdom, while Iran was only getting more territory and gaining more strongholds around Saudi. Their leaders were confident enough to boost and brag about controlling four Arab capitals, adding San’a through their Houthi puppets in Yemen.

Saudi Arabia understood the significance of Obama’s inaction, and fully grasped that it was an action in it self. Saudi’s bargaining chip (Oil) does no longer affect the U.S. which is not only becoming self-sufficient to satisfy internal oil consumption needs, but now has established a foothold in the oil market.

Furthermore, those “red lines” which Obama keeps drawing for Russia, only to redraw it again, are merely political tactics to buy more time until Saudi is fully stripped of the only powerful tool it could use to pressure the U.S. and Russia. Obama was saying to Saudi “We do not need you anymore” the message was loud and clear.

Overnight, Saudi Arabia flooded the market with oil. Obama woke up from his short lived dream, and the world saw a price inversion for the oil barrel, plummeting from the $100 mark to $35. Which is less than the cost of American shale oil production.

The Kingdom maintained this price for three consecutive years in which it depleted Iran’s coffers, further gained 25% shares of the world oil market and pushed many American refiners to go under. Yet the coldest slap of them all, Saudi Aramco was the highest bidder which ended up taking over two refiners in the U.S. in Texas and Alaska. Ouch Obama.

As for Iran, this drop in Oil price marked the end of its rampage in the Middle east. They have money to support their terrorist puppets the most important tools for implementing their expansionist project, which happened to be aligned with what they call the “Arab Spring” a cover name for an evil project, which aims to further destabilize, and divide and pave the way for Zionism to continue its project.

Saudi’s intervention in Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain followed to further teach Obama that his “democratization efforts” are but a mirror which Saudi shattered.

Supporting economic stabilization efforts, unifying instead of dividing, supporting prosperity and political stability in the Muslim and Arab world; that is Saudi’s agenda which will surely kill the western efforts to further control the region.

American oil companies stopped producing, those who refused to sell went under, those who sold had to shrink and those who refused to shrink went into debt. The U.S. economy faced a serious threat of stagnation the blame game started to take full effect in the American political discourse.

The sheer failure of Obama’s foreign policy, his inconsistency in conduct and the many red lines which were walked all over was a humiliation not only for Obama, but for the larger American community. The lose of jobs in the oil sector in the U.S. prompted desperate moves from the U.S. represented in the “JASTA” bill, aimed against Saudi Arabia.

The U.S. politicians which politicians attempt with the JASTA bill was met with crushing defeat when Saudi threatened to dump the dollar if such law went into effect, furthermore it invited Russians and Chinese officials to discuss future evaluations to include their currencies if the Petrodollar pact was threatened.

Moreover, in international relations, the rule of reciprocity will expose the U.S. government to be sued in case Obama allowed such a bill to pass. Which he immediately vetoed. Obama decided to face the facts, oil Saudi Arabia’s territory, and the slaps he received was warranted, it was only better to pay a visit to Riyadh attempting to save what’s left.

However, he arrived to no reception, and he was escorted to the King’s farm. This permanent mark on the cheek of Obama is fit to be dubbed “The imprint of political tampering with Saudi Arabia” and I fear that Putin will receive a similar one in days to come!

Assem Alzahrani is an independent Political commentator from Saudi Arabia. He writes for Millichronicle.

Ilhan Omar was spotted enjoying time with Tim Mynett at a California restaurant in March.

A Washington, DC, mom says her political-consultant husband left her for Rep. Ilhan Omar, according to a bombshell divorce filing obtained by The Post.

Dr. Beth Mynett says her cheating spouse, Tim Mynett, told her in April that he was having an affair with the Somali-born US representative — and that he even made a “shocking declaration of love” for the Minnesota congresswoman before he ditched his wife, alleges the filing, submitted in DC Superior Court on Tuesday.

The physician, 55, and her 38-year-old husband — who has worked for left-wing Democrats such as Omar and her Minnesota predecessor, Keith Ellison — have a 13-year-old son together.

“The parties physically separated on or about April 7, 2019, when Defendant told Plaintiff that he was romantically involved with and in love with another woman, Ilhan Omar,” the court papers say.

“Defendant met Rep. Omar while working for her,’’ the document states. “Although devastated by the betrayal and deceit that preceded his abrupt declaration, Plaintiff told Defendant that she loved him, and was willing to fight for the marriage.

“Defendant, however, told her that was not an option for him’’ and moved out the next day, the papers say.

“It is clear to Plaintiff that her marriage to Defendant is over and that there is no hope of reconciliation,’’ according to the filing.

The Mynetts lived together for six years before marrying in 2012, the filing said.

Omar — a member of “the Squad,” a group of far left-leaning female freshman House members including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and two others — recently separated from her husband, according to reports.

The 37-year-old congresswoman and mom of three paid Tim Mynett and his E. Street Group approximately $230,000 through her campaign since 2018 for fundraising consulting, digital communications, internet advertising and travel expenses.

Omar was spotted enjoying time with Tim Mynett at a California restaurant in March.

Beth Mynett is seeking primary physical custody of her and her husband’s son in part because of Tim Mynett’s “extensive travel” with Omar — which isn’t exactly part of his job description, the document says.

“Defendant’s more recent travel and long work hours now appear to be more related to his affair with Rep. Omar than with his actual work commitments,” the court papers state.

When he was home, “he was preoccupied and emotionally volatile,’’ Beth Mynett says of her estranged spouse. Meanwhile, the mom has been juggling “the vast majority of responsibilities related to [their son’s] school, medical care, and extracurricular activities,’’ the papers say.

The doctor argued that she doesn’t trust her husband’s judgment with their son anymore — in part because of his relationship with Omar.

“By way of example, days prior to Defendant’s devastating and shocking declaration of love for Rep. Omar and admission of their affair, he and Rep. Omar took the parties’ son to dinner to formally meet for the first time at the family’s favorite neighborhood restaurant while Plaintiff was out of town,” the papers state.

“Rep. Omar gave the parties’ son a gift and the Defendant later brought her back inside the family’s home,” the papers say.

Beth Mynett said in the filing that the most concerning thing about the excursion was her hubby’s decision to “put his son in harm’s way by taking him out in public with Rep. Omar, who at that time had garnered a plethora of media attention along with death threats, one rising to the level of arresting the known would-be assassin that same week.”

The physician said her husband “has a history of emotional volatility, that can cause him to become easily angered and rageful,’’ according to the papers.

She added that she used her contacts to help him launch and grow his career and financially supported him along the way — only to have him “conveniently asserting after their separation that he is nearly broke, and his business is floundering,” the documents show.

Tim Mynett, using “bullying tactics,” has “begun threatening not to pay for his share of their joint financial responsibilities,” Beth Mynett says in the complaint.

She is seeking full control of the couple’s DC home, child support and legal fees, according to the filing.

Tim Mynett and Omar did not immediately return messages seeking comment.

Omar’s husband, Ahmed Hirsi, is a former banker who was hired as a senior policy aide to a Minnesota city councilwoman last year, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported at the time. Omar was previously married to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi.

President Trump has repeated a claim that the union with Elmi was illegal immigration fraud because he is her brother and that they wed so he could obtain American citizenship. Omar called that allegation “absolutely false and ridiculous.”

Article first published on NYPost.