From: William Gladys <william.gladys@tiscali.co.uk>
Date: Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 3:07 PM
Subject: Fw: 'Bahrain violence, utter disgrace to US'
To: world_Politics@googlegroups.com
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'Bahrain violence, utter disgrace to US'
Mon Apr 18, 2011 7:52PM
Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Saeed Jalili
Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council says the ongoing brutal crackdown in Bahrain is a disgrace to the US, which claims to be an advocate of human rights.
Speaking in separate meetings with officials from Iraq's Kurdistan Region on Monday, Saeed Jalili criticized "Washington's hypocritical policies in the Middle East."
He also accused Washington of supporting the Bahraini regime's violent suppression of crowds demanding their basic rights, IRIB reported.
Jalili also noted that those rulers who choose to put faith in the US rather than their own nations should know that they will suffer the same fate as that of ousted Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and deposed Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
Last Wednesday, Maryam al-Khawaja of the Bahrain Center of Human Rights asked US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the US Islamic Forum about Washington's silence on the Bahraini regime's violent crackdown on protests.
"I was hoping that the US would take a stronger stance on Bahrain. I've been trying to get the Department of State to impose a ban on the sale of arms to [P]GCC [Persian Gulf Cooperation Council] countries," Maryam told Clinton in Washington.
The Bahraini rights activist also expressed concern over the destiny of her family members who have been detained recently. Khawaja's family members were reportedly beaten before being taken away by masked men believed to work for the Bahraini regime.
Clinton, however, did not condemn Manama's brutal clampdown on opposition protesters and activists.
But Bahraini demonstrators say they are determined to carry on protests until their demands for freedom, constitutional monarchy as well as a proportional voice in the government are met.
Scores of protesters have been killed and many others have gone missing since the beginning of the popular revolution in the Persian Gulf kingdom of Bahrain -- which hosts the Fifth Fleet of the US Navy.
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