The Bassiouni Commission Report

The international experts who were appointed to investigated cases of human rights violations, torture, and purges of Shia employees from government ministries and hospitals have issued a 500-page report.

The 500-page report by Mr Bassiouni’s commission outlines all of abuses during and after the protests. But most importantly, the report did not find any evidence of Iranian government’s involvement in provoking the protests. The Bahraini government has been screaming about Iran’s role in the civil disturbances, the report raises the question of why the Bahraini government officials have resorted to blaming Iran for the domestic protests that have rocked the country ?

The Iranophobia politics of the Gulf countries is meant to distract their own population from their internal problems, and the Iranian government’s poor image marked by its intransigence on the Nuclear issue provides them with a no-cost strategy

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