© Saudi Royal Palace / AFPThe inauguration of the Global Center for Combating Extremist Ideology in Riyadh on May 21, 2017
As the US influence in the Middle East wanes, it increasingly associates itself with dictatorships like Saudi Arabia, whose "dark face" and "role in supporting terrorism is known to everyone in the region," a high ranking Iranian Revolutionary Guard official told RT.
The United States and President Trump in particular consider only one "dimension" of convergence with Saudi Arabia, ignoring the "ideological and intellectual" challenges and costs such ties entail, media adviser to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Commander-in-Chief Hamid Reza Moghadam Far told RT in an exclusive interview.
"That was one of Trump's senseless moves. He was just seeking to milk this cow and thinking about only business," Moghadam Far said.
"The first challenge is that Trump goes to such a country as his first trip after being elected... That is the behavior shown towards a dictatorial regime in which democracy is meaningless and no elections take place and the people have no presence on the scene. The next challenge is that they claim that they are combating terrorism. It is no secret that Saudi Arabia has provided the most support for terrorism."
Comment: The West should learn a thing or two from Putin: