Alwaght- Iran has strongly rejected Bahraini regime's baseless allegations of links between Tehran and a number of suspects in a 2017 bombing targeting an oil pipeline in the Persian Gulf sheikhdom.
In a Thursday statement, the Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman, Bahram Qassemi, said the Bahriani regime’s fresh accusations are “fabricated and baseless,” calling on the rulers in Manama to stop the “awkward and delusional blame game” against Iranian institutions.
“Instead of making repeated allegations and outdated scenarios, the Bahraini officials had better abandon [their] security-policing approach in suppressing the legitimate demands of the people and put an end to the crisis in the country through serious dialog with their people,” he said.
On Wednesday, Bahrain’s Interior Ministry said the country has arrested four Bahraini men suspected of bombing a Saudi Aramco oil pipeline outside the capital, Manama, on November 10 last year, accusing Iran of training and arming two of the suspects.
The statement noted that three other individuals belonging to the team are still at large.
It said all the seven belong to the “February 14 Coalition” — an opposition protest movement named after the date of the beginning of a popular uprising against Bahrain’s ruling Al Khalifah regime in 2011.
The Bahraini regime is a close ally of the US and Britain in the Persian Gulf region and has been brutally suppressing peaceful protests against the ruling Al Khalifa dynasty since early 2011.
Many Bahrainis have been killed and thousands of others injured and arrested in the ongoing crackdown on the peaceful protests
Amnesty International and many other international rights organizations have frequently censured the Bahraini regime for the rampant human rights abuses against opposition groups and anti-regime protestors and activists.
