{"id":17393,"date":"2013-05-14T09:06:59","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T15:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=17393"},"modified":"2013-05-14T09:06:59","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T15:06:59","slug":"bahrain-opposition-movement-determined-to-have-democracy-dump-al-khalifa-dynasty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=17393","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain Opposition Movement Determined to have Democracy, dump Al-Khalifa Dynasty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Opposition Figure: Bahrainis Determined to Topple Al-Khalifa Dynasty<\/strong><br \/>\n8 May, 2013 &#8211; Bahrain Freedom Movement<\/p>\n<p>TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior Bahraini opposition figure dismissed talks between the al-Khalifa regime and the country&#8217;s dissidents as meaningless, and said the Bahraini people are determined to end the rule of the al-Khalifa dynasty.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Bahraini people&#8217;s revolution is a revolution of major change to overthrow the al-Khalifa regime and it doesn&#8217;t accept compromise,&#8221; Secretary-General of Bahrain Freedom Movement Saeed al-Shahabi told FNA on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>He described talks between the al-Khalifa regime and opposition forces as useless and meaningless due to the continued imprisonment of Bahraini activists in the al-Khalifa jails, and rejected the proposal for the Bahraini crown prince&#8217;s succession to the thrown to replace his father.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Bahraini people will not accept the crown prince as the ruler of the country since he has collaborated with his father and uncle in the suppression of the people,&#8221; Shahabi underlined.<\/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, end of discrimination, establishment of justice and a democratically-elected government as well as freedom of detained protesters.<\/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, 2011, to help Manama crack down on peaceful protestors.<\/p>\n<p>So far, tens of people have been killed, hundreds have gone missing and thousands of others have been injured.   <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vob.org\/en\/index.php?show=news&#038;action=article&#038;id=2262\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;more<\/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%3D17393&amp;text=Bahrain+Opposition+Movement+Determined+to+have+Democracy%2C+dump+Al-Khalifa+Dynasty&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opposition Figure: Bahrainis Determined to Topple Al-Khalifa Dynasty 8 May, 2013 &#8211; Bahrain Freedom Movement TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior Bahraini opposition figure dismissed talks between the al-Khalifa regime and the country&#8217;s dissidents as meaningless, and said the Bahraini people are determined to end the rule of the al-Khalifa dynasty. &#8220;The Bahraini people&#8217;s revolution is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=17393#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":[3362],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17393"}],"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=17393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17394,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17393\/revisions\/17394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}