October 1, The Iran Project � A Bahraini activist says Al Saud is trying to undermine and suppress the axis of resistance in the Islamic countries, adding that trial of top Shia scholar Sheikh Isa Qassim was done at the behest of Saudi Arabia to harm Islam.

Speaking to a reporter in Manama on Saturday, Bahraini activist Seyed Morteza Al-Sandi�said today, the Al Khalifah regime is engaged in a harsh crackdown on dissent and widespread discrimination against the country's Shia majority at the behest of Saudi Arabia, stressing that Saudis are acting against the axis of resistance in Palestine, South Lebanon, Yemen and Bahrain.

Al-Sandi�reiterated that the trial of Sheikh Isa Qassim is not the trial of a person but of a religion, so any religious elites and scholars must explain the risk of the current stage in Bahrain for its nation otherwise there will have no respect for anyone in Bahrain.

On June 20, Bahraini authorities stripped Sheikh Qassim of his citizenship less than a week after the country�s Justice Ministry suspended the country's main Shia opposition group, the al-Wefaq�National Islamic Society and dissolved the opposition al-Risala Islamic Association and Islamic Enlightenment Institution, founded by Sheikh Qassim.

Dozens of people have staged separate demonstrations in Bahrain to support distinguished Shia Muslim cleric Sheikh Isa Qassim and condemn the ongoing�crackdown on pro-democracy activists.

Bahrain, a close ally of the US in the Persian Gulf region, has seen a wave of anti-regime protests since mid-February 2011.