Muslim countries do not trust America’s promises about democracy – Mehr news agency Iran and world’s news

According to the Mehr news agency, citing Rashatoudi, according to the results of the Gallup Institute survey, a significant part of 12 countries with a majority Muslim population are skeptical about America’s commitments and promises to establish democracy.

Also, according to this survey, most people in the mentioned countries doubt that America will allow them to build their political future without a percentage of supervision.

This survey was published on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the occupation of Iraq and the operation to overthrow Saddam Hussein led by the United States, which began in 2003.

Two decades after this war, now a little more than a quarter of Iraqis believe that America has been committed to its commitments to establish democracy in Iraq. On the other hand, 72% disagreed with the fact that America supports holding free elections in Iraq and believe that Washington is not “serious” about this issue.

Despite holding democratic elections in 2005 in Iraq during the American and British occupation, Iraqi democracy has always been involved with examples of violence, fraud and protests.

According to the senior researcher of the Iraq Body Count Project, which tracks and records civilian deaths in the country since the US invasion in 2003, the US invasion of Iraq has “left an economic ruin and a failed state.”

He also said in 2021 in an article entitled “Free Democracy” that “America and its allies could never create a Western-style democracy or observe the expected achievements of such democracy in an advanced country (in a country like Iraq).”

The Gallup poll also concluded that Iran is considered the most distrustful country (81%) in the region in terms of confidence in America’s intentions. Tunisia, Turkey, occupied Palestine, as well as Iraq, constitute the first five countries in terms of mistrust of Washington.

Gallup also asked the citizens of these countries whether they believe that the United States has fulfilled its obligations to help these countries’ economic development.

Iran, Turkey and Tunisia (between 74 and 82 percent) have strongly opposed this commitment of America, but Kuwait and Morocco registered the lowest level of public opposition to this issue with 41 and 34 percent, respectively.