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By Kamila Aliyeva

Bahrain's ambassador to Russia, Ahmed al-Saati, said that the countries of the Persian Gulf threatened Qatar with new sanctions in case of its refusal to fulfill their demands to stop supporting terrorism.

"Should Qatar continues to change the topic and travels to the world powers such as Washington, Moscow, the European Union, to proceed the same policy and to buy the position of these countries through trade and military deals, we have other trump cards to protect our rights, and we will not just look at this," Saati said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

He pointed out that the Gulf countries gave Doha time to correct its mistakes, because of its unwillingness to negatively affect the Council of Cooperation of the Arab States of the Persian Gulf, which consists of the six Arabian monarchies, including Qatar.

Several Arab countries including Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt cut off diplomatic relations with Qatar, accusing the latter of supporting ISIS, Al-Qaeda and other terrorists and destabilizing the situation in the Middle East. They were later joined by Libya, Yemen, the Maldives, Mauritius and Mauritania, with Jordan and Djibouti announcing they would lower the level of diplomatic contacts with Qatar. Senegal and Chad recalled their ambassadors from Doha.

Doha denied allegations over its support to terrorism and extremism saying that the diplomatic rift was based on "baseless fabricated claims." Qatar expressed its readiness for a dialogue to solve the crisis and denied to take counter-action measures against its neighbors.

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Kamila Aliyeva is AzerNews’ staff journalist, follow her on Twitter: @Kami_Aliyeva

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