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Tuesday 30 August 2016 - 17:28
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Iranian lawmakers support Bahrainis' anti-oppressive struggle



The majority of Iranian lawmakers have expressed their support for the struggle of the Bahraini people against oppressive moves taken bythe Al Khalifah regime.

In a Tuesday statement, 203 lawmakers said the Muslim and oppressed Bahraini people have long exposed to the hostile, vindictive and inhumane behavior of the Al Khalifah regime.

It added that the Bahrainis have fought the tyrannicalregime with patience while international organizations have remained silent in the face of "this black and dark" caseand refrainfrom taking any decisiveaction against this oppression.

The lawmakers slammed the cruel Bahraini rulers for revoking the citizenship of prominent Shia Muslim cleric, Sheikh Isa Qassim, and committing hundreds of other crimes, including the imprisonment of children and women, as well as detaining political and religious leaders, saying that such moves indicate the imbecility of the Al Khalifah regime.
The Iranianlegislators added that they regard this issue as a great historicdisgrace for international bodiesand so-called advocates of human rights as well as the US, Saudi Arabia and the Al Khalifah regime.
The statement was read by a member of the Iranian parliaments Presiding Board, Ahmad Amir-Abadi, at the end of an open session of the parliament.

Bahraini authorities revoked Sheikh Qassims citizenship in late June. They later dissolved the main opposition bloc, al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, as well as the Islamic Enlightenment Institution, founded by the 79-year-old cleric, besides another opposition movement, the al-Risala Islamic Association.



[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="555"] Protesters hold Bahraini flags and placards with the images of Bahrain's leading Shia cleric, Sheikh Isa Qassim, during a rally after Friday prayers in the village of Diraz on August 12, 2016. Reuters[/caption]

Since February 14, 2011, thousands of anti-regime protesters have held numerous demonstrations in Bahrain on an almost daily basis, calling on the Al Khalifah family to relinquish power.

Troops from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have been deployed to the country to assist the Bahraini government in its crackdown on peaceful protests.

Scores of people have been killed and hundreds of others injured or arrested in the Bahraini crackdown on the anti-regime activists.

By Press TV

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