Tehran, April 13: Iranian university students and academics have staged another protest rally to condemn the government-sanctioned killing of Bahraini protesters by security forces and Saudi-led foreign troops.
Crowds of angry students joined by a number of professors assembled outside the capital’s Tehran University on Tuesday to voice solidarity with anti-regime protesters in Bahrain, Media reported.
The protesters chanted slogans against the Al Saud family and their allied Al Khalifa dynasty of Bahrain, carrying Iranian and Bahraini flags as well as posters portraying the brutal crackdown on Bahrainis.
They set fire to the flags of Britain, Israel and the United States, which they blamed for the suffering of Muslims in Bahrain and the ongoing violence in the Persian Gulf state.
Student union directors from Tehran University addressed the Tuesday gathering, highlighting the failure of enemy schemes in suppressing the popular uprisings in the region.
“We have gathered here today to express our protest about the involvement of Saudi Arabia in the Islamic countries and the heinous massacre they are doing on the Muslims of Bahrain,” student protester Parisa Asgari told a Media correspondent.
“And now we condemn the [UN] Security Council who (sic) speaks about human rights when it is to their benefit and keep silent when it is against them,” she stated, calling for an end to the military crackdown in Bahrain.
Mostafa Nasiri, another student protester, condemned the intervention of Arab governments in Bahrain as “completely against international and human rights laws.”
They engage in the killing of people who have gathered to protest what is going on in their country and call for the establishment of a democratic regime that does what they want, he complained.
The protesters also denounced Riyadh’s violation of international law in its invasion of Bahrain to help suppress the country’s people.
Dozens of people have been killed and many more have been wounded in Bahrain since the outbreak of anti-regime protests in the Persian Gulf kingdom in mid-February.
Dozens have also been arrested by Bahraini security forces who have been resorting to excessive force to disperse peaceful demonstrations with the backing of Saudi-led foreign mercenaries and troops.
——–Agencies