{"id":6403,"date":"2012-02-26T19:52:36","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T02:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=6403"},"modified":"2012-02-26T19:52:36","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T02:52:36","slug":"bahraini-opposition-leader-talks-with-al-khalifa-regime-futile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=6403","title":{"rendered":"Bahraini Opposition Leader, Talks with Al Khalifa Regime &#8220;Futile&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bahraini Opposition Leader Views Talks with Al Khalifa Regime as &#8220;Futile&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n26 February, 2012 &#8211; FARS<\/p>\n<p>TEHRAN (FNA)- A Bahraini revolutionary leader said that the offer of talks with the opposition is a plot hatched by the Manama regime to buy time, and added that negotiation with the Al-Khalifa regime is &#8220;futile&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The regime&#8217;s invitation to talks has always been on the table since long time ago since it actually wants to buy time and is not after results,&#8221; Head of Bahrain&#8217;s Freedom-Seeking Union Ali Fayez told FNA on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It (the Bahraini regime) wants talks for the sake of talks,&#8221; Fayez stated, adding that the type of negotiations desired by the Manama regime is the one in which the opposition merely listens and obeys whatever is dictated by the regime.<\/p>\n<p>He pointed to the regime&#8217;s strong opposition to any talks over an elected government, and noted, &#8220;What does negotiation mean when they (ruling regime) restrict it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Bahraini opposition says that people in the tiny Persian Gulf country are resolved to continue protests until they see a materialization of their righteous demands and aspirations.<\/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, 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 more than 1,000 others have been injured. <a href=\"http:\/\/english.farsnews.com\/newstext.php?nn=9010176236\" 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%3D6403&amp;text=Bahraini+Opposition+Leader%2C+Talks+with+Al+Khalifa+Regime+%22Futile%22&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahraini Opposition Leader Views Talks with Al Khalifa Regime as &#8220;Futile&#8221; 26 February, 2012 &#8211; FARS TEHRAN (FNA)- A Bahraini revolutionary leader said that the offer of talks with the opposition is a plot hatched by the Manama regime to buy time, and added that negotiation with the Al-Khalifa regime is &#8220;futile&#8221;. &#8220;The regime&#8217;s invitation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=6403#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":[2568],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6403"}],"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=6403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6404,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6403\/revisions\/6404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}