AhlulBayt News Agency - Chairman of the Iranian parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaeddin Boroujerdi blasted the al-Khalifa regime for its crimes against the Bahraini people, and said the warning issued by Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force Commander Major General Qassem Soleimani was the manifestation of a holy anger at a big crime.
General Soleimani warned the Manama regime on Monday to stay away from Bahraini Shiite cleric Ayatollah Sheikh Issa Qassim or wait for dire repercussions, including armed struggle by people and overthrow of the Al-Khalifa dynasty.
Bahrain's Interior Ministry announced in a statement yesterday the country's top Shiite cleric was stripped of his citizenship.
"The position taken by Brigadier General Qassem Soleimani shows a holy wrath against a major crime and his prediction of al-Khalifa's future situation and its definite fate is also correct. If the regime doesn’t take lesson from the fate of the governments which have committed such crimes, then certainly it should wait for its consequences," Boroujerdi said on Tuesday.
"The al-Khalifa regime has committed crimes against the innocent and defenseless Bahraini people in the past few years and has used the mercenaries of several countries for these crimes," he added.
Boroujerdi described al-Khalifa regime's measure against Sheikh Qassim as an unwise move against all international laws and the UN approval in 1966 which was also accepted by Bahrain, and said even if a person commits a crime, no country has the right to strip him/her of citizenship, let alone Sheikh Qassim who is a prominent religious figure and the recent measure against him has angered millions of Muslims, including those in Iran.
In a rare statement issued on Monday, General Soleimani warned the Manama regime that in case of any insult or disrespect for Sheikh Qassim, "the toppling of the regime will only be a small part of the repercussions that will also include armed resistance".
The General blasted the Manama regime for its "unacceptable and inhuman oppression, discrimination, injustice and humiliation" against the Muslim Bahraini nation, and said people on the tiny Persian Gulf island have so far tolerated the Al-Khalifa regime's apartheid and heavy pressures and continued their uprising peacefully despite the fact that a number of their political and religious leaders have been arrested, their women and children have been imprisoned and tortured, some others have been stripped of their citizenship and undergone intensifying pressures with their rights trampled upon.
He said people's rise for their demands in a peaceful way has, unfortunately, emboldened the Al-Khalifa regime to intensify its crimes and crackdown on the Bahraini nation, "specially as a result of the meaningful silence shown by the UN, the US and the Western states," everyday.
"The illegal detention of Sheikh Ali Salman (the head of the main opposition group, Alwefaq) and other political and religious leaders of Bahrain in light of the silence of the international circles has emboldened the Al-Khalifa to threaten the sanctuary of the remarkable cleric and religious leader of Bahrain's Shiites, Ayatollah Sheikh Issa Qassim, and inspired the people of the region and Bahrain with worrying thoughts," General Soleimani said in his statement.
"The Al-Khalifa seems to be misusing the peaceful movement of the people and is miscalculating the extent of public fury," he said, and added, "They certainly know that trespassing the sanctuary of Ayatollah Sheikh Issa Qassim is a redline whose crossing will set fire to Bahrain and the entire region and leave people with no other option, but armed resistance."
"The Al-Khalifa will pay the price of such an action whose endpoint will be nothing but annihilation of this tyrannical regime," the Iranian Quds Force Commander warned.
General Soleimani also warned supporters of the Manama regime that any insult to Ayatollah Sheikh Issa Qassim and continued overpressure on the Bahraini people heralds "a bloody Intifada (uprising) with consequences whose responsibility will fall on those who legitimize the arrogance of the Bahraini rulers".
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source : Fars News
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21 June 2016
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"The position taken by Brigadier General Qassem Soleimani shows a holy wrath against a major crime and his prediction of al-Khalifa's future situation and its definite fate is also correct. If the regime doesn’t take lesson from the fate of the governments which have committed such crimes, then certainly it should wait for its consequences," Boroujerdi said on Tuesday.