Kubva paakatora masimba muna 1995, Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani akafunga kuti Qatar yaigona kuwana kuchengetedzeka chete nekuchinja kubva kuSaudi appendage kuenda kumukwikwidzi weSaudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia yakabvisa mumiriri wayo kuDoha kubva muna 2002 kusvika muna 2008 kuyedza kumanikidza Qatar kudzora maitiro ayo ega. Maitiro aya akakundikana zvakanyanya. Chitubu cheArab chakasiya nzvimbo isina simba iyo Saudi Arabia neQatar yakatsvaga kuzadza, neQatar ichitsigira dutu reshanduko uye Saudi Arabia ichipikisa; sezvo nyika mbiri idzi dziri shamwari dzeUnited States, dzinodzivisa kupokana kwakanangana nedzimwe. Qatar yanga iine kusawirirana nedzimwe hurumende dzeArabhu pazvinhu zvinoverengeka: inoshambadzira Al Jazeera; inopomerwa kuchengetedza hukama hwakanaka neIran; uye yakatsigira Muslim Brotherhood muQatar.
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