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muriel_volestrangler

(101,158 posts)
Mon Jun 20, 2016, 06:36 PM Jun 2016

Iran says Bahrain has crossed line by stripping Shia cleric of citizenship

Source: The Guardian

Revolutionary Guards commander says Manama’s move against Ayatollah Isa Qassim will trigger armed resistance

Bahrain has stripped the spiritual leader of the kingdom’s Shia Muslim majority of his citizenship, resulting in protests outside his home and furious threats by neighbouring Iran over the escalating repression.

The move against Ayatollah Isa Qassim comes less than a week after a court banned the country’s main opposition group, al-Wefaq, accusing it of fomenting sectarian unrest and having links to a foreign power – a clear reference to Iran, which is a fierce critic of Bahrain’s Sunni monarchy.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander Gen Qassem Suleimani told Manama that it had crossed a “red line” by putting pressure on Qassim and that the move would trigger armed resistance, the Fars news agency reported.

“Al-Khalifa (the rulers of Bahrain) will definitely pay the price for that and their bloodthirsty regime will be toppled,” warned Suleimani, who heads the Guards’ elite Quds force and is seen as the ruthless face of Iran’s strategic reach across the Middle East.



Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/20/bahrain-strips-influential-shia-cleric-isa-qassim-citizenship



That's worryingly threatening.
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Iran says Bahrain has crossed line by stripping Shia cleric of citizenship (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler Jun 2016 OP
The whole damn Middle East is a religious war waiting to happen CanonRay Jun 2016 #1
It's a class war and it is already underway. Think French Revolution. It will be bloody. McCamy Taylor Jun 2016 #2

CanonRay

(14,038 posts)
1. The whole damn Middle East is a religious war waiting to happen
Mon Jun 20, 2016, 11:17 PM
Jun 2016

what a nightmare. We should just stay the hell out.

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