(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - "Today, the US and British weapons are imported to Bahrain," Secretary-General of Bahrain's National Democratic Population Fazel Abbas said in a press conference in Tehran on Thursday.
"The suppression of Bahraini revolutionaries is not possible without the two countries' green lights and supports," he added.
Fazel described suppression of the people and foreign interference as the main two obstacles to the settlement of the crisis in his country, and said, "Free elections and free dialogue with the people are the solution to the Bahrain crisis."
In relevant remarks in September, a prominent Bahraini opposition figure also unveiled the US and Britain's active role in assisting the Manama regime with its suppression of protesters in the Persian Gulf island.
A leading member of Bahrain's Islamic Action Society (Jamaiyyat al-Amal al-Islami) Hashem al-Sabbaq said that American and British military and security advisors are supervising the training courses of Bahraini security forces for suppressing the protesting people.
He lashed out at the Western and Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC) countries for supporting the Al Khalifa regime.
"These countries are clearly interfering in the domestic affairs of Bahrain, specially in security and intelligence cases," Sabbaq said at the time.
In December 2011, the British government admitted in a written report to the parliament that some 130 British troops were stationed in Bahrain at the start of renewed pro-democracy protests in the Arab country.
"There were 130 military personnel stationed in Bahrain in March 2011, the majority in the UK Maritime Component Command," Defense Minister Lord Astor said in a written parliamentary reply published at the time.
Also in 2011, the UK government admitted that members of the Saudi Arabian National Guard sent into Bahrain may have received military training from the British Armed Forces.
"It is possible that some members of the Saudi Arabian National Guard which were deployed in Bahrain may have undertaken some training provided by the British military mission," Armed Forces Minister Nick Harvey said.
Anti-government protesters have been holding peaceful demonstrations across Bahrain since mid-February 2011, calling for an end to the Al Khalifa dynasty's over-40-year rule, end of discrimination, establishment of justice and a democratically-elected government as well as freedom of detained protesters.
Violence against the defenseless people escalated after a Saudi-led conglomerate of police, security and military forces from the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC) member states - Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Qatar - were dispatched to the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom on March 13, 2011, to help Manama crack down on peaceful protestors.
So far, tens of people have been killed, hundreds have gone missing and thousands of others have been injured.
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