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| Bahrain summons Iraqi envoy over ex-PM Maliki’s recent comments |
| 2018-12-26 |
| [ALMASDARNEWS] Bahrain’s Foreign Ministry summoned the deputy charge d’affaires at the Iraqi embassy on Monday to denounce footage of former Iraqi prime minister Nuri al-Maliki criticizing Manama’s crackdown on the Shiite opposition, Rooters said. The politician attended a meeting last week organized by the February 14 movement, Bahraini activists who Manama designated a terrorist group in 2014. "Discrimination, marginalization... have reached a severe limit on the people of Bahrain," Maliki said, according to videos from the event. He was also quoted as urging dialogue with those "demanding freedom and justice" to protect Bahrain and its people, Sunnis and Shiites. Manama described Maliki’s statements as "blatant and unacceptable interference in the internal affairs of Bahrain," state news agency BNA reported. Bahrain, like Iraq, is seen as a flashpoint for the proxy war between the two regional arch-rivals Sunni Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and Shiite Iran. |
| Posted by:Fred |