{"id":15986,"date":"2013-01-29T10:25:06","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T17:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=15986"},"modified":"2013-01-29T10:25:06","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T17:25:06","slug":"bahraini-opposition-leader-time-ripe-for-al-khalifas-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=15986","title":{"rendered":"Bahraini Opposition Leader: Time Ripe for Al-Khalifa&#8217;s Collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bahraini Opposition Leader: Time Ripe for Al-Khalifa&#8217;s Collapse<\/strong><br \/>\n29 January, 2013 &#8211; FARS<\/p>\n<p>TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior leader of the February 14 Coalition opposition group in Bahrain said people are resolved to continue protests against the al-Khalifa rulers and the regime is on the brink of collapse.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is now the time that the idol of Bahrain and al-Khalifa dictatorship as the US puppet in the Persian Gulf gets shattered and Bahrain&#8217;s future government be formed and established again with the presence of all political and religious spectrums in the election,&#8221; Sheikh Issa bin Ali al-Jamri told FNA on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>He said that despite all the medieval-like tortures and suppression of protestors by the al-Khalifa regime, the Bahraini people are steadfast in their move for changing their country&#8217;s ruling system and materializing all their goals.<\/p>\n<p>Anti-government protesters have been holding peaceful demonstrations across Bahrain since mid-February 2011, calling for an end to the Al Khalifa dynasty&#8217;s over-40-year rule.<\/p>\n<p>Violence against the defenseless people escalated after a Saudi-led conglomerate of police, security and military forces from the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC) member states &#8211; Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Qatar &#8211; were dispatched to the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom on March 13 to help Manama crack down on peaceful protestors.<\/p>\n<p>So far, tens of people have been killed, hundreds have gone missing and more than 1,000 others have been injured. <a href=\"http:\/\/english.farsnews.com\/newstext.php?nn=9107139111\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;source<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D15986&amp;text=Bahraini+Opposition+Leader%3A+Time+Ripe+for+Al-Khalifa%27s+Collapse&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahraini Opposition Leader: Time Ripe for Al-Khalifa&#8217;s Collapse 29 January, 2013 &#8211; FARS TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior leader of the February 14 Coalition opposition group in Bahrain said people are resolved to continue protests against the al-Khalifa rulers and the regime is on the brink of collapse. &#8220;It is now the time that the idol <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=15986#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[3953],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15986"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15986"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15988,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15986\/revisions\/15988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}