Arabs Demand To Expel Iran From Islamic Bloc

Session of the Islamic Summit Conference, Turkey, April 2016

The largest bloc representing Islamic countries is meeting in Turkey Thursday, and the vast majority of those nations have united against one of their own members: Iran.
Across the region Arabs are calling for Iran to be expelled from the Organization for Islamic Cooperation (OIC), a Sunni-heavy group encompassing 57 Muslim countries.
Labeling Iran as the “enemy from within,” Muslim leaders have masked their call for solidarity and unity among Muslims by laying the blame for the region’s security woes at Tehran’s feet. The calls have come from mainly Gulf countries that stand behind Saudi Arabia.
Arab media is reporting that the final statement from the summit will call on Iran to “refrain from interference in internal affairs and respect the sovereignty and independence of neighboring countries,” a direct challenge to Tehran’s sponsoring of militia groups across Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen—all countries where Saudi Arabia is also waging a proxy war.
Iran’s participation in the conference has stirred anger among thousands of Arab.
Many consider Iran the main cause of instability in the region, particularly because of its continued support of embattled Bashar al-Assad, as well as its support of the Houthi rebels in Yemen who’ve been fighting pro-Saudi forces for over a year.
“The biggest mockery in the OIC is the presence of the Iran, enemy of the Muslim nation from within,” wrote one Saudi user.
 Others accused Iran of “committing crimes against the Sunnis in Iraq and Syria” and wondered “how an Islamic summit can take place when the enemy is among you, Iran is the one killing Muslims everywhere.” Users asked to retweet posts with the hashtag “to support the tens of millions of Sunnis who have “tasted”… poisoning, harassment, and displacement [at the hands of Iran].” Many others shared images and videos blaming Iran for starving children and the destruction in Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Lebanon.

Mr. President, please realize that your strategy isn't working

" President Obama's comments yesterday reveal the disturbing degree of self-delusion that characterizes the Administration’s campaign," McCain, who chairs the Senate Armed Services Committee, said in a statement. "None of the so-called progress that the President cited suggests that we are on a path to success, and when you are not winning in warfare, you are losing."

McCain's remarks come after Obama who was briefed by top defense officials, including Defense Secretary Ash Carter and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey. Obama spoke at the Pentagon, providing an update on the U.S. and global campaign to defeat the terrorist organization. He said" This will not be quick. This is a long-term campaign. ISIL is opportunistic, and it is nimble," the president said. "Our mission to destroy ISIL and to keep our country safe will be difficult; it will take time. There will be setbacks as well as progress."

Obama did not explain about his hesitations about neither  arming the Syrian moderate opposition group ,The Syrian liberating free Army nor the national Sunnites in Iraq, but said" the United States and its partners have hit ISIS, or ISIL, with 5,000 airstrikes and killed thousands of the group's members that  means nothing  for those Arabs who have suffered and still suffering from the isis extremists and have been crushed by the  terrorist regime of Iran .

McCain suggested that the administration's current efforts won't be enough to defeat the terrorist organization, and pressed for military leaders to be "candid" with Obama.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) also criticized the president on Monday, suggesting that it was time for Obama to make "hard decisions" in the ISIS fight

“Just weeks after President Obama admitted we lacked a complete strategy to combat ISIS, he’s now touting his efforts against the group. But his rhetoric doesn’t match reality," he said.

Their remarks follow criticism from Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) who told John Catsimatidis on “The Cats Roundtable” on New York’s AM 970 on Sunday that Obama "doesn't' know what he's doing" in the Middle East. 

Graham, who is running for president, suggested that Obama's foreign policy has aided terrorist groups, including ISIS, in going unchecked. 

Across the Capitol, Rep. Mac Thornberry, McCain's counterpart in the House, said ahead of Obama's remarks that the president should realize that "his strategy to defeat ISIL isn't working."

"I hope that the President will acknowledge these realities, end the veto threats on bills that would enhance his ability to take the fight to ISIL, and rethink his own inadequate strategy," he added.

For conclusion the majority of the policy makers in the west and Arab countries believe that the president should realize that "his strategy to defeat terrorism isn't working, before anything because he has shacked hands with the God father of global terrorism and tries to help them in nuclear negotiations; he backs Huthimilitias in Yemen by directing the United nations and its convey of 25 ships delivering goods to them in Hodeida bay; and different kinds of hindrances on those who really need to fight against terrorism in Iran such as the PMOI and NCRI.http://www.ncr-iran.org/en/ So we should tell him Mr. President, please realize that your strategy isn't working, let us manage the problem by ourselves.