Tue Feb 19, 2013 20:55:06
Iran has categorically dismissed Bahraini regime’s recent anti-Iran allegations as baseless, describing the claims as a means of deviating world’s public opinion from the crimes committed by al-Khalifa regime against its own people.
"The remarks by certain officials of regional countries who are faced with their people's demands are not the solution to these countries' internal problems," Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told a weekly press conference in Tehran on Tuesday.
Mehmanparast made the remarks after Bahraini regime's Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid bin Abdullah al-Khalifa on Saturday claimed that Manama has dismantled a "terrorist cell" linked to Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman denounced the allegations, saying: "If the people of the regional states have some demands, they should be materialized, and accusing other states including Iran will not solve any problem. Therefore, these states had better listen to their people's voice instead of speaking about unreal issues."
Anti-regime protesters have been holding peaceful pro-democracy demonstrations across Bahrain since mid-February 2011, calling for an end to the al-Khalifa dynasty's over-40-year rule, end of discrimination, establishment of justice and a democratically-elected government as well as freedom of detained protesters.
So far, tens of people have been killed, hundreds have gone missing and thousands of others have been injured at the hands of Saudi-backed Bahraini regime’s troops.
In a recent development, hundreds of thousands of Bahraini protesters took to the streets in the capital Manama and other cities across the tiny Persian Gulf island nation to mark the second anniversary of their uprising against the al-Khalifa regime, calling on the country's rulers to step down.
More than 300,000 protesters poured to the streets across the tiny Persian Gulf island country on Friday to celebrate the beginning of the third year of their revolution against the al-Khalifa ruling apparatus.
Saudi-backed al-Khalifa regime's troops killed two protesters during popular protests on Thursday.
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