Iranian top cleric wrote a letter to Union of Muslim Scholars and Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) urging for all out support for oppressed Muslim nations of the region.

Iranian top cleric wrote a letter to Union of Muslim Scholars and Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) urging for all out support for oppressed Muslim nations of the region. 

Iranian senior cleric and head of the World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought, Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Taskhiri recognized public demonstration of the people in Bahrain and highlighted the role of Muslim Scholars in success of the protests. 

Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Taskhiri in his letter to the head of Union of Muslim Scholars, Dr Sheykh Yusuf al-Qardawi invited him to back the oppressed people of Bahrain. 

"Here we ask you to take a brave and honorable stance towards the oppressed nation of Bahrain hence, it is one of the principles of the Union of Muslim Scholars to defend oppressed Muslim nations," said Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Taskhiri to Sheykh Dr Yusuf al-Qardawi, head of the Union of Muslim Scholars asking Egyptian scholar. 

He also condemned some Muslim leaders of the world for their ignorance towards the revolution of the people in Bahrain and called their joint stance with the oppressive rulers as a shame for them. 

Expressing his regret over the brutal suppression of the Bahraini nation he said; "Bahraini peaceful demonstration is savagely suppressed and thugs and mercenaries arrest, murder and brutally behave the people to disperse them." 

In another letter to Dr Dr Abdulaziz Othman Altwaijri, head of Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO), Iranian top cleric said,"Efforts made for uniting Muslims, developing the culture of proximity, strengthening the unifying links and preventing sectarian differences is still continuing. 

He called the religious seditions in countries like Yemen and Bahrain to be baseless creations of some sick minds and propagandist systems while the violence in these countries is absolutely political and in fact the result of ignoring people's rights during recent decades. 

"In fact I assume that should we maintain justice in society, there would be no ground for outbreak of such confrontations and this is the justice for realization of which we all have to try."