Cleric slams Saudi crackdown of Bahraini nation

Ayatollah Abbas Ali Soleimani, Friday prayer leader of Sistan and Balouchestan condemned Saudi rulers over invasion of Bahrain while calling on Muslim nation to make a decision on the issue, reported Taqrib News Agency (TNA).

"Those who join the oppressors in cracking down the oppressed [people in Bahrain] are not undeserved and should not be honored to serve the holy shrines of Imams," said the prayer leader urging Muslims around the world to make a move for the issue of Bahraini nation.

He applauded the Islamic Republic of Iran to be a constant supporter of the oppressed and has already been following the aim to present time."

Ayatollah Abbas Ali Soleimani also referred to the developing Islamic Awakening of the Muslim world and said that people's uprising in Yemen, Egypt, Libya and Bahrain confused the arrogant powers, condemning the violent behavior towards the protesters to be prescribed by western countries.

Some members of Human Rights-related organizations have expressed their opposition against Al Kalif regime crimes including, the violent behavior towards the protestors, issuing the permission for occupation of the country, hindering any aiding of the injured, detention and kidnapping of more than 600 people as well as transporting the detainees to Saudi jails.

Representative of the jurisprudent in Sistan and Balouchestan also praised pro-Human Rights figures for condemning Bahraini government in hiring British mercenaries to tortur protesters and detainees, dismissing Shia from state-run organizations and prevention of their presence in mosques and main squares of Bahrain.

Friday prayer leader of Sistan and Balouchestan said that he saw a promising future for the world when the oppressed would be free from the oppressors.