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MANAMA, May 18 (KUNA) -- Bahrain Saturday rejected an Iranian foreign
ministry official's statement over the Kingdom and considered it an
"unacceptable" intereference in Manama's internal affairs.
"The Iranian behavior is unprecedented in the relations between countries
nor it is normal in regional and international relations," foreign ministry
undersecretary for regional affairs and the GCC Hamad Al-Amer said in a
statement quoted by official news agency (BNA).
He was reacting to Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian
who was quoted by Iranian media as warning against reported storming by
Bahrain security forces of houses of clerics.
The Iranian actions are blatant violations of principles of good
neighborliness and mutual respect of national sovereignty, said Al-Amer, as
well as principles of Islam.
Al-Amer expressed regret that senior Iranian officials continued to unleash
"dangerous threats, political, religious and media provocations, which
reflected Iranian expansionist greeds in an Arab country member in the UN, the
Arab League, the GCC, OIC and Non-Aligned Movement." (end)
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