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Iran Warns Riyadh against Military Intervention in Bahrain
"Such moves will increase tension and undermine stability and security in the region," Vahidi told reporters on the sidelines of a parliament session here in Tehran on Wednesday. "The region will turn into a center for atrocity, hostility and clashes if such unwise moves that lack legality become a normality," Vahidi stressed, adding that such a change would definitely harm the regional nations. Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast on Tuesday voiced Tehran's strong opposition to any foreign military intervention in Bahrain, and warned that any such move might entail dire consequences. Speaking to reporters in his weekly press conference here in Tehran, Mehman-Parast pointed to the recent uprising in Bahrain, and stated that deployment and intervention of foreign forces in Bahrain is "unacceptable" and would make problems more complicated and hard to resolve. Mehman-Parast reminded that the people in Bahrain are just expressing their legitimate demands in a peaceful manner. On Wednesday morning, Bahrain's security forces launched a crackdown on anti-government protestors by taking control of the Pearl Roundabout which has been the focal point of gathering of protestors since last month. The King of Bahrain has declared martial law, giving the military authority to end pro-democracy protests with the backing of 2,000 troops from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Some 10,000 Bahraini demonstrators marched on the Saudi embassy in the capital, Manama, yesterday to protest against the Saudi intervention, which an opposition statement said amounted to an occupation. Significant parts of the island kingdom, which has a population of 600,000, remain in the hands of protesters, seven of whom were killed yesterday by the security services. Posted by: 2011-03-16 |
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