Qatar emir accuses blockade countries of seeking regime change

"They want a regime change. It's... so obvious," Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani told CBS's 60 Minutes.
"History as well tells us, teaches us they tried to do that before, in 1996 after my father became the emir. So, and they made it also so obvious in the last couple of weeks."
The Gulf crisis erupted on 5 June when Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt cut diplomatic ties with Qatar, imposing economic sanctions as it accused the emirate of supporting terrorism and of becoming too close with Shia rival Iran.Riyadh and its allies closed land and maritime borders, suspended air links and expelled Qatari citizens. Doha denies the charges.
"They don’t like our independence, the way how we are thinking, our vision for the region," Sheikh Tamin said on Sunday.
"We want freedom of speech for the people of the region. And they’re not happy with that. And so they think that this is a threat to them."
When Arab streets exploded across the region in 2011, Qatar openly backed the uprisings that eventually toppled longstanding dictators. The upheavals unnerved Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, according to Sheikh Tamin.
When the border was shut, there was a dairy shortage. But in three months entire farms rose from the desert. If the Cold War had its Berlin Airlift, the Gulf crisis has its bovine airlift. More than a thousand cows a month are imported by plane from California, Wisconsin and Washington state, CBS said on its website.
Across Qatar, a sense of urgency has galvanised the country to meet the current threat, CBS said

Qatar emir accuses blockade countries of seeking 'regime change'