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Source: https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/middle-east-agrees-president-trump-america-realizes
In the Middle East, People Don't Feel Anger at America, They Feel Relief
(Fox News) Majeed Gly - I was born on the Iranian border and raised in the shadow of its wars. I have seen firsthand what these policies do to the people of this region. I was in Erbil, Riyadh and Dubai just recently. I know what people say when the cameras are off. It is not anger at America. It is relief. For millions of people across the Middle East, this war did not start on Feb. 28. It started decades ago. Across the Gulf, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan, people want what any American wants: a job, a stable country and a future that is not hostage to someone else's ideology. What stops progress, every time, is the same force. Iran-backed armed groups in Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen - all taking orders from Tehran, all blocking the future the rest of the region is trying to build. Since Feb. 28, Iran has struck every country in the region that chose partnership with the West - and not one of them fired a shot at Iran. In the UAE, 13 people were killed and over 200 were wounded. Kurdistan has been hit more than 700 times, with 14 dead. Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar - all struck. None of them threatened Iran. The fear across this region is not that America acted. It is that the world will lose interest before anything changes. The writer is president of the American Kurdish Committee.