Iran supreme leader: Bahrain's move against top cleric risks violence

Iran's preeminent pioneer has impacted as "silliness" a choice by Bahrain's pioneers to strip a top Shi'ite Muslim minister of his citizenship, and said it could incite savagery from Shi'ites, who make up the larger part in the Sunni-ruled Gulf kingdom.

The discourse by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, conveyed by state media, came after Bahrain's Sunni powers ventured up measures against the island's Shi'ites and stripped their otherworldly pioneer, Ayatollah Isa Qassim, of his citizenship.

"This is explicit silliness and craziness. When despite everything he could address the Bahraini individuals, Sheik Isa Qassim... would exhort against radical and outfitted activities," Khamenei said in comments conveyed by state TV on Sunday.

"Assaulting Sheik Isa Qassim implies expelling all impediments blocking chivalrous Bahraini young people from assaulting the administration."

Bahrain in 2011 put down an uprising drove by Shi'ites requesting changes. From that point forward, there have been every day clashes between Shi'ite young people and security powers, and also a few bomb assaults.
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during Friday prayers in Tehran September 14, 2007.

Bahrain blames Iran for instigating agitation among its Shi'ite populace and giving money related and material backing, a charge Tehran denies.

In a progression of moves in the course of recent weeks, powers likewise shut down the principle Shi'ite resistance al-Wefaq Islamic Society, multiplied the jail sentence on the gathering's pioneer, Sheik Ali Salman, and confined unmistakable rights campaigner Nabeel Rajab.

(Story refiles to evacuate incidental word "island" in second passage.)

(Reporting by Dubai newsroom; Editing by Raissa Kasolowsky)
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