Netanyahu using Iran war to reshape Middle East: Former Qatar PM

DOHA, May 11: The United States-Israel war on Iran is not the result of a sudden escalation but the culmination of a long-term Israeli agenda to violently reshape the Middle East, former Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani tells Al Jazeera.

In a wide-ranging, candid interview on Al Jazeera's Al Muqabala programme, the veteran diplomat offered a stark assessment of the region's rapidly shifting geopolitical landscape. He warned that the crisis in the Strait of Hormuz is the most perilous consequence of the recent war, cautioned against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's ambitions for a "Greater Israel" and called for the urgent establishment of a unified Gulf defence pact.    �"AL JAZEERA