(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - "The policy of suppression, violence and using iron fist by authorities against the citizens and opposition figures will intensify and prolong the crisis and troubles the possibility of achieving a solution," Qassem said on Friday, addressing worshippers in al-Daraz district on Friday.
Qassem pointed to the strong willingness of the al-Khalifa regime to use force against the Bahraini people, and said such policies harm people's interests and prolong the ongoing crisis in the country.
"Those who hope that the Bahraini people would relinquish their demands one day are only dreaming," he reiterated.
Anti-government protesters have been holding peaceful demonstrations across Bahrain since mid-February 2011, calling for an end to the al-Khalifa dynasty.
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 2011, to help Manama crack down on peaceful protestors.
So far, tens of protesters have been killed, hundreds have gone missing and thousands of others have been injured.
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