Iran Press/ Middle East: Eleven years ago, on February 14, the Day of Rage, the Bahraini people took to the streets in a move against the Bahraini regime, where the regime's security forces injured 14 people and killed 1.
The Bahraini people's revolution was ongoing during the 11 years, and the regime supported by Saudi Arabia and Jordan used to suppress the people's protests, jailing, executing, and torturing them. In some cases, the tortures even led to the death of the protesters jailed.
Now, after 11 years, the Bahraini groups gathered at Iran's Tehran University and pledged to launch a coordinated campaign to liberate Bahrain's nation from the Saudi regime's oppression.
An activist from Khalas (liberation) Movement Abdulra'uf Al-Shaieb, delivering the first speech in the gathering, stressed that the leaders of the Al-Khalifa regime would never see any rest and must be tried for the crimes they committed.
He said: "The Bahraini people condemn the Al Khalifa regime's normalization of ties with Israel and try to expel the Israelis from Bahrain because the existence of Israel is dangerous for all the countries of the world."
In the last 11 years, the leaders of the Al Khalifa regime have denied 10,000 Bahrainis of their citizenship, including the individual's children and family.
At yesterday's rally, the Bahraini resistance groups stressed returning those who were stripped of their citizenship.
Still another speaker Sheikh Abdullah al-Saleh who himself was of those whose citizenship was denied, said the Bahraini regime destroyed 38 mosques during the 11 years. According to the latest figures, 120 people were sentenced to death penalties.
The Bahraini monarch regime is one of the allies of the US that always is trumpeting democracy.
He said that the normalization of ties with the Israeli regime in Bahrain was done under economic pretext. Still, the Israelis were now going to establish a military base in the country.
Sheikh Abdullah described the establishment of an Israeli military base in Bahrain as a threat to Iran and other countries in the region, stressing that Bahrain is becoming a second Palestinian.
The last speaker of the event, Sayyed Murtadha al-Sendi from the Wifaq Movement, was a Bahraini activist spending 25 years in British, Bahraini, and Saudi jails.
Al-Sendi said the people of Bahrain were indebted to the Iranian nation's support and stressed that the Bahraini revolution would come to fruition. The people would expel the occupiers and leaders of the Al-Khalifa regime.
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