Qatar is the non-conformist of the region, an upstart that often refuses to go along with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. We don't accept anybody interfering our sovereignty." And so they think that this is a threat to them. We want freedom of speech for the people of the region. Sheikh Tamim: They don't like our independence, the way how we are thinking, our vision for the region. So why are they doing it? For what purpose? ![]() Discussing, you know, how to solve this terrorism that is a threat for the rest of the world.Ĭharlie Rose: What do you think this is about? Because this is a conflict that has as much power to disrupt the region as anything that's happened politically in a while. We were praising each other, laughing with each other. Patients were kicked out from hospitals.Ĭharlie Rose: And no one suggested they had reason to launch an attack against you? Students were kicked out from those countries. Sheikh Tamim: More than 90 percent of our goods, food, medicine comes from the land. Sheikh Tamim, Qatar's young emir, had to steady a stunned and skittish nation. Not long ago hundreds of trucks a day flowed through this border post. In an instant, Saudi Arabia closed Qatar's only land crossing. But the country's very existence was threatened on June 5th when the blockade was imposed by four countries that loom over Qatar, a country that is smaller than Connecticut and has a population of 3 million, only 300,000 of whom are native citizens. ![]() Its wealth, reflected in the gleaming skyline of its capital Doha, is derived from the world's largest natural gas field. Qatar is per capita the richest nation on earth. Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Qatar's emir, and 60 Minutes correspondent Charlie Rose ![]() The target of the nearly five-month-old siege is Qatar's 37-year-old emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, who is now facing the challenge of saving his country. Qatar has denied and denounced the charges. On June 5th, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Bahrain launched a suffocating economic and political blockade against Qatar, accusing the country of funding terrorism and cozying up to Iran. At the center of the dispute is the tiny nation of Qatar, home to the busiest and most vital American air base in the region. It's a bitter fight among American allies that has the potential to unravel the U.S.-led coalition that is battling ISIS and trying to contain Iran. There is a crisis in the Middle East you may not know much about.
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