Seyyed Reza Sajjadi who was speaking at a press conference in Moscow added, “We are now witnesses to the massacre of the Bahraini people by their own government, and the west has not only remained silent about that broad violation of the human rights and refrained from condemning it, but also blocked the path for the broadcasting of the miserable ongoing human catastrophe there, which is double injustice against that nation.”
He posed the question, “Are the people of Bahrain asking for anything beyond one vote for any Bahraini citizen?”
Sajjadi added, “A young lady in Bahrain is arrested merely for chanting freedom seeking slogans, tortured, abused, and finally killed, all within the span of a single day.”
Addressing the present reporters at the press conference, he said, “You have been witnesses to the west’s dealing with Qazzafi in recent weeks on pretext that he was busy massacring his own people, and the moves they have made there. Are not the small nation of Bahrain, a large number of whom are getting killed with the turn of each new day in need of at least verbal support?”
A reporter asked the Iranian ambassador what Iran has done to prevent the massacre of the defenseless Bahraini people. Sajjadi replied, “Iran’s policy is offering spiritual support to them, and illuminating the public opinion of the world nations about the events taking place in that country.”
He expressed hope that the independent and realist media would heed their professional responsibilities and reflect the events taking place there for the world nations, not permitting the west-imposed news sanction against reflection of the massacre of the Bahraini people succeed.
A reporter asked the Iranian envoy about Iran’s stand regarding the massacre of the Syrians by their own government. The IRI Ambassador said, “The received reports denote that only three to four percents of the people of that country have taken part at the unrests there and that the events there are by no means a vast popular movement.”
He added, “The important point about Syria is that it has been a frontline country against the Zionist regime invasions, and it has now been a couple of years that the Israeli and the US officials have been intensifying their intrigues aimed at fomenting crisis in Syria.”
He praised Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad for his alertness and his political insight in crisis management in his country, although stressing, “The unrests there are few and scattered, at any rate.”
Referring to the Syrian president’s reforms movement, he predicted that even the small portion of the Syrians who have due to such problems as unemployment and poverty unknowingly joined the rioters there, would team up with their legitimate government one more time.
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