Tehran, YJC. Ayatollah says lack of respect for Isa Qassim will have dire consequences for Al Khalifa.
Ayatollah Ali Eslami speaking in interview with Mehr news
agency condemned Al Khalifa’s raid on the house of Qassim and said "The
Bahraini government is a tribe which rose to power due to colonialism. It has
taken control of things in Bahrain and unleashes a dictatorial rule over the
country’s poor people.”
Bahraini regime forces stormed the cleric’s house in the
mostly Shia village of Diraz, west of the capital Manama, and checked the
identities of everyone inside the house.
The senior Shia cleric braved the tense atmosphere created
by the Bahraini regime and said at the Friday prayers sermon in Diraz that
pro-democracy protests will continue unabated in the country.
In the Persian Gulf, Saudi Arabia covers dictatorial
government such as that of Bahrain, he said.
Eslami added "With its American and British advisors, Saudi Arabia
defines course of action for the small countries. That is why 70 to 80 percent
of the people of Bahrain have taken to the street in opposition to the
dictatorship, trying to gain their civil rights.”
"Instead of trying to confront Israel and free al-Quds, Saudi
Arabia has dispatched thousands of armed forces to Bahrain to quench the
uprising. But they haven’t made any progress and have recently realized that
some entities in Bahrain are influential. The Al Khalifa government following Saudi
Arabia which arrested Sheikh Nimr, attacked the house of Isa Qassim in order to
scare people and make them keep silent.”