Qatar Emir Praises Iran's Democracy

Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani said during a meeting in Paris with the city's mayor that Iran's stability was important to the Gulf states and to the West, and that in the three decades since the Islamic Revolution in Iran there had been four presidents, while in other Arab countries there had been no changes of president. Source: Al-Sharq, Qatar, June 24, 2009