Iranian cleric tells Bahraini Shiites to continue protest

[JanDutchy]

Source: AP Sundays Zaman

19 March 2011, Saturday / AP, TEHRAN


A senior Iranian cleric on Friday urged Bahrain’s majority Shiites to keep up their protests - until death or victory - against the Sunni monarchy in the tiny island kingdom.

Bahrain has been rocked by a month long uprising of the Shiite-led opposition against its Sunni rulers. And though there are no apparent links between Bahrain’s Shiite opposition and Iran’s predominantly Shiite nation, the Persian Gulf leaders are concerned that political gains by Bahrain’s Shiites could give Iran a stepping stone to its archrival Saudi Arabia. Iran has denounced the deployment of a Saudi-led force from Sunni Arab allies this week to prop up the Sunni monarchy in Bahrain. In Tehran, Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati spoke to worshipers after Friday prayers and called on “brothers and sisters” in Bahrain to “resist against the enemy until you die or win.”



Read more: http://www.todayszaman.com/news-238641-iranian-cleric-tells-bahraini-shiites-to-continue-protest.html

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Iran's policy using religion in order to divide and reign and to call for standing behind democratic needs. It's called playing the democracy-agenda.
But when you ask or democratization for the theocratic reign of Iran, they first have to pray in order to get the selfgodgiven answer.

[BOG PERSON]

1. huh?

Iran's policy using religion in order to divide and reign and to call for standing behind democratic needs. It's called playing the democracy-agenda.
But when you ask or democratization for the theocratic reign of Iran, they first have to pray in order to get the selfgodgiven answer.

are you drunk?

[davidinalameda]

3. English as a 2nd language perhaps?

:shrug:

I'm feeling charitable tonight

[snagglepuss]

4. Rather than being seen as being rude and insensitive why not check the

profile and find out the poster is in the Netherlands? What is your second language?

[DURHAM D]

2. Why don't you ask the Moderators to take one of your dups down? nt

[snagglepuss]

5. The hyprocrisy of those despicable Iranian clerics is jaw-dropping.

I wonder what Bahrain's shites think of the Iranian green revolution that the clerics brutally suppressed?

[Turborama]

6. I've seen a couple of documentaries that were made before the brutal crackdown & it wasn't sectarian

Until the brutal crackdown. Now the Kings of Bahrain and Saudi Arabia have created their own sectarian monster.

Here's one of the documentaries I mentioned: http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/peopleandpower/2011/03/201138153916892448.html