Obama’s message to Iran in the Arab media

They [the west

The world respects the strong only and treats the weak with con­tempt. Obama’s mes­sage yes­ter­day to the Iran­ian peo­ple and their lead­ers is a good example.

Mod­er­ate Arabs were also crit­i­cized by the Jor­dan­ian web­site Kul Al-Urdon saying:

Saudi Ara­bia and Egypt, both took a hos­tile posi­tion towards Iran, and tried to form an Arab alliance with Israel against Iran, lost this bat­tle also.

Saudi [funded

Tariq Al-Hamid for exam­ple on AL-Sharq Al-Awsat said:

One of the “soft power” ele­ments used by Wash­ing­ton in Obama’s speech is that he talked about the bright side of the Iran­ian cul­ture, art, cul­ture and music … The old days and not the rev­o­lu­tion­ary Mul­lahs era.

Al-Rashid on the same news­pa­per has a prob­lem with Obama saying:

Obama soft­ness is more dan­ger­ous than Bush’s aggres­sive­ness … We are try­ing to read Obama’s mind rather than to under­stand the Ira­ni­ans. Bush was clear, the Ira­ni­ans are ambigu­ous.… We don’t know in which direc­tion Obama goes.

Many news­pa­pers and writ­ers are still in shock, in the com­ing days there will be more opin­ions and analy­sis on Arab media.… stay tuned.