AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): Bahrain’s highest religious authority Sheikh Isa Qassim described Manama’s backing for recent US strikes against Iraq as “shameful”.
The cleric did not directly name Bahrain’s rulers in his statement on Wednesday, referring instead to “some regimes” in the Arab world.
He said that it was “very painful, very ugly and very humiliating” to see regional governments “announce their official support alongside Israel for the brutal American aggression against beloved Iraq and the solid forces defending it.”
The US strikes on Sunday killed 25 members of Iraq’s Kataib Hezbollah and injured more than 50 others.
Bahrain’s Foreign Ministry applauded the attacks and said Washington was playing an “important strategic role … in confronting terrorist groups.”
Kataib Hezbollah is part of Iraq’s Hashd al-Shaabi or the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU).
Sheikh Isa Qassim said the US strikes “would be understood as aggression against all of Iraq.”
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source : LuaLua TV
Wednesday
1 January 2020
2:27:28 PM
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Bahrain’s highest religious authority Sheikh Isa Qassim described Manama’s backing for recent US strikes against Iraq as “shameful”.