28 Mar 2024
Tuesday 21 June 2016 - 12:17
Story Code : 219668

Revocation of Qassims citizenship sign of Al-Khalifas last breaths

TEHRAN, Jun. 21 (MNA) Irans Parliament Speaker said Tue. Bahrains decision in revoking citizenship of prominent Shia cleric, Sheikh Isa Qassim, is a sign of Al-Khalifas last breaths.


Ali Larijani made the remark in todays open session of Parliament, adding this was an impolitic and quite an adventurous move by the Bahraini regime which assumed that by revoking the nationality of this prominent spiritual leader, it could lead the countrys domestic political crisis toward tranquility.

The move must be analyzed within the context of a series of irresponsible actions by this regime which, on the one hand, has undermined its own sovereignty under the rule of Western military bases and tanks of an Arab country, and on the other, has imprisoned all libertarians who sought to express their democratic oppositions through peaceful means, including Sheikh Salman, another Bahraini cleric, Larijani said.

Larijani further compared the Bahraini move to the prating of ill-fated ShahofIran who had threatened anyone refusing to join the Rastakhiz Party a monopoly on political activity in Iran with revoking their Iranian nationality; this kind of overplayed bravado and talking nonsense was what overturned his monarchy, and the Al-Khalifa regime must take a careful look at this historical record that clearly shows once a government starts threatening the influential figures of its nation with revocation of citizenship, it is taking its last breaths.

Larijani further added that Irans Parliament denounces Al-Khalifas move, and warns the Bahraini authorities that this brazen adventure will destroy all hopes for achieving a peaceful solution and spark new protests among the tormented Bahraini people deprived of their basic rights.

The Al-Khalifa regime on Monday revoked the citizenship of prominent Shia cleric Isa Qassim on charges of using his position to "serve foreign interests" and promote "sectarianism and violence". According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, at least 250 people have been stripped of their Bahraini citizenship in recent years for alleged disloyalty.

By Mehr News Agency

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