Iranian MP threatens Bahrain if it does not release detained Shia opposition member

A member of the Iranian parliament has threatened the Bahraini authorities, saying they will pay a heavy price if they continue to detain the chairman of the Shia Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, Sheikh Ali Salman.

Iran’s Tasnim news agency reported the spokesman for the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, Seyyed Hossein Naqavi Hosseini, as saying that the protesters would have to seek “any option” in order to achieve their goal and have Salman released.

Hosseini warned the regime in Bahrain against what he described as “bullying” the Bahraini people. “The Islamic Republic of Iran stands by the oppressed people of Bahrain, and will follow up with the wave of arrests against opposition leaders by the House of Khalifa regime in international circles,” he said.

Hosseini also lashed out at Saudi Arabia, accusing it of being “a partner of the Al-Khalifa in their crimes against the unarmed people of Bahrain…The Saudi regime performs its criminal role in supporting terrorists in the Middle East, including the massacres taking place in Iraq and Syria at the present time,” he claimed.

He added that Saudi Arabia has turned into an incubator to train and fund terrorists to commit massacres against Muslims everywhere, including in Bahrain.