TEHRAN -- In one of its recent reports, the Pentagon Consultant Panel called Saudi Arabia a U.S. enemy and asked the U.S. officials to give the Saudis an ultimatum to give up terrorism.

The panel also insisted terrorist activities existed in that country and emphasized that the Saudis participate and cooperate in its planning and financing, and that they are the most dangerous enemies of the United States.

Although the U.S. Administration didn't consider this published report as the U.S. official stance, Collin Powell's telephone conversation with his Saudi counterpart, Amir Saud al Faisal which aimed to reduce tension between the two countries showed the seriousness of the issue.

In his telephone conversation, Powell assured the Saudis that the report was not U.S. official stance.

Even though U.S. officials denied the report and announced that the two countries maintained friendly ties, but it seems that they have practically admitted it and transferred their air dbase from Saudi Arabia to Qatar.

What made the panel to prepare and issue the report and how much influence these figures exert in the U.S. political structure and administration? Finally what impact will the report leave on the U.S.-Saudi relations? These are some of the questions that Hasan Qashqavi, a member of the Majlis Foreign Policy Commission, tried to dwell on in an interview with the Tehran Times.

Asked if anti-U.S. sentiments on the rise in the Arab countries, Qashqavi said, yes, some polls show how anti-U.S. sentiments among the Saudi people is rising. For example, most of the newborn male babies are named Osama or related names. This shows the prevailing anti-U.S., spirit which is increasing in the Arab countries.

Referring to the Saudi people's approach to Bin Laden and fundamentalism, the member of the Majlis Foreign Policy Commission said, the U.S. administration through the use of media instruments has created a vehement cynicism in the Westerners and the American people's mind. The Bush Administration has provoked a Crusade against Muslims, he said.

Alluding to the anti-Islamic spirit shadowing the U.S. administration, he said Washington has even issued the Saudis an instruction with regard to the methods of imparting religious teachings in the Saudi schools.

Qashqavi said that new arrangements for the region by the U.S. is underway, according to which the Islamic identity is to be abandoned gradually and secularism and laicism be propagated instead.

The strategy, which covers all the regional countries, has been designed by the U.S. for the next 25 years. Emphasizing on the fact that the U.S. considers Islam as an obstacle to its national interests, Qashqavi noted, the U.S. analysis is wrong because the national interests are preserved through cultural coexistence not clash of civilizations.

The MP said that currently the U.S.-Saudis interests don't call for downgrading of relations and it seems that the threats are not real and are mere propaganda.