The Friday prayer leader of Baghdad noted, “The Al Khalifah regime’s support for the attack by the Zionist regime on the Popular Mobilization Forces proved the falsehood of the pro-slogans of this dynasty.” According to Rasa News Agency’s correspondent in Najaf, Ayatollah Sayyid Yasin al-Musawi, the Friday prayer leader of Baghdad, said, “In the 1980s, Arab countries launched a war against Iran under the pretext of supporting Iraq as the world’s eastern gateway of the Arab world. The question that arises is where is Iraq now? Why do some Arab countries support the Zionist attacks on this country? Assuming that these countries claim that Iran is the enemy of the Arab countries, are the Popular Mobilization Forces also their enemies?”
The Iraqi religious scholar said, “The Popular Mobilization Forces and the Iraqi people are authentic Arabs and those who have posed as Arabs and conspired against this country must seek their Arab origins or else how can one claim to be Arab and support the Zionist regime’s attacks on Iraq?”
Ayatollah al-Musawi said, “The Al Khalifah regime’s support for the attack by the Zionist regime on the Popular Mobilization Forces proved the falsehood of the pro-slogans of this dynasty and they are not [true] Arabs at all but British colonialists empowered them to dominate over the oppressed Bahraini people. Where is the Arab slogan of ‘help your brother, whether he is an oppressor or is oppressed’ when Bahrain’s Minister of Foreign Affairs [Khalid ibn Ahmad Al Khalifah] declared that the Zionist regime attack on Iraq was made in defence of the Zionist regime?”
It should be noted that Bahrain’s Minister of Foreign Affairs defended Israel over its August 25th attacks on the positions of the Popular Mobilization Forces near the Syrian border, saying, “One who strikes and destroys the piles of their ammunition is not to blame. That is self-defence.”
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