Senior Advisor to Iranian Speaker:

Britain Playing Unconstructive Role in Bahrain

Rasa - Senior Advisor to the Iranian Parliament Speaker Hossein Amir Abdollahian blasted Britain for supporting the suppression of the Bahraini people by the Al Khalifa regime.

News ID: 427888

Date: 05 March 2017 - 20:31

RNA - "Britain supports the Bahraini regime's suppressive and mischievously plays an unconstructive role in that country,” Amir Abdollahian said.

He called on Britain to quit supporting the Manama regime by considering the righteous rights of Bahraini people.

In early December, Iran's Human Rights Headquarters in a statement lambasted Britain and the US for supporting the al-Khalifa and Saudi regimes in their violation of the Bahraini and Yemeni people's rights.

In the statement, Iran's Human Rights Headquarters lashed out at the Bahraini regime for suppressing people and turning the little country into a big prison, and meantime, condemned the British government for supporting the human rights violation in the Arab country and promising to sell billions of pounds of weapons to it.

"We know that Britain is experiencing a bad economic situation but is the island's government entitled to violate the nations' inalienable rights for the sake of the improvement of economic situation," it asked.

The statement also condemned Saudi Arabia's killing of Yemeni people, specially women and children, and said membership of Riyadh and Washington, which supports the Saudi regime in the Yemen war, in the Human Rights Council is undermining the international body.

Bahrain has been in the throes of an uprising since February 2011, when hundreds of thousands of protesters took over a Central roundabout in the capital Manama and demanded political and democratic reform in the authoritarian kingdom.

Bahraini authorities backed by Persian Gulf allies, specially Saudi Arabia, violently broke up the protests, leading to the deaths of hundreds of people, and since then rallies have continued and human rights groups have condemned the kingdom for imprisoning and torturing thousands of activists. Hundreds of others have gone missing without any trace or state explanation.

Saudi Arabia has also started invasion against Yemen in March 2015 and has sustained the campaign so far at the cost of thousands of Yemeni lives to restore power to Yemen’s former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, a steadfast Riyadh ally, who had resigned and fled to the Saudi capital in 2014. He returned to Aden in November 2015.

Yemen’s Ansarullah movement, which set up the Supreme Political Council together with the Yemeni General People’s Congress party, after the resignation of the former government, has, meanwhile, been defending the nation against the Saudi invasion together with the army forces.

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