Prince on Meeting Emirati Prince, Russian Investor, and Back Channels with Iran (Video)
Independent Aggregator of Iran-related News/Events, Kodoom.com: In a rare and candid interview with Mehdi Hasan of Al Jazeera's Head to Head, Erik Prince, the founder and former CEO of Blackwater, the controversial and notorious private security firm accused of civilian deaths in Iraq, defends his security firm’s performance during the Iraq war. He also discusses Iran (starting Minute 34:00) and a secret meeting at a resort in the Seychelles with Kirill Dmitriev, the head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, whom Mohammed bin Zayed, the crown prince of Abu Dhabi used as a go-between with Putin nine days before Trump’s Inauguration (New Yorker investigation HERE):
Prince also claims he is aware of some "back channel negotiations" with Iran (minute marker 41:40).
In 2018, The Intercept reported U.A.E. and Saudi Arabia started making billions of dollars in investments in Russia and convening high-level meetings in Moscow, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, and the Seychelles, as an inducement for Putin to partner with Gulf states rather than Iran.
A staunch Trump supporter (his sister is Trump's Secretary of Education), Prince criticizes the wasteful US military industrial complex (Minute 41:00) and claims Trump is against endless wars, yet he fails to address the large increase in the US military budget in 2019 under Trump.
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