{"id":9845,"date":"2012-05-16T19:26:41","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T02:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=9845"},"modified":"2012-05-16T19:28:20","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T02:28:20","slug":"hamad-moves-to-cede-bahrains-sovereignty-to-al-saud-blames-iran-for-gross-violation-of-its-sovereignty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=9845","title":{"rendered":"Hamad moves to cede Bahrain&#8217;s sovereignty to al Saud, blames Iran for \u201cgross violation of its sovereignty\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bahrain, Iran in row over Tehran\u2019s criticism of GCC union<\/strong><br \/>\n17 May, 2012 &#8211; Reuters<\/p>\n<p>DUBAI: Bahrain has summoned Iran\u2019s charge d\u2019affaires to protest against what it called a \u201cgross violation of its sovereignty\u201d in a row after Tehran criticized efforts by Gulf Arab states to forge closer political and military union.<\/p>\n<p>Arab heads of state met in Riyadh Monday to discuss a call by Saudi King Abdullah to unite the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council to counter Iran\u2019s growing influence in the Middle East and neutralize any threat of revolts by Shiite communities in their countries.<\/p>\n<p>They failed to agree on further integration, but talks on the matter are to resume later this year.<\/p>\n<p>In the run-up to the Riyadh meeting, speculation was rife that an initial union would be announced between Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, where anti-government protests led by majority Shiites have gripped the island state since last year.<\/p>\n<p>An Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said Bahrain would be better off heeding the calls of its people instead of seeking union with other Gulf Arab monarchies, all of which are allied with Iran\u2019s arch-adversary the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to an Iranian MP\u2019s comments reiterating Iranian territorial claims to Bahrain, the official IRNA news agency Monday quoted Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani as saying: \u201cIf Bahrain is supposed to be integrated into another country, it must be Iran and not Saudi Arabia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bahrain\u2019s Foreign Ministry condemned both comments, saying diplomats presented a protest memorandum to Iran\u2019s charge d\u2019affaires in Manama.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailystar.com.lb\/News\/Middle-East\/2012\/May-17\/173676-bahrain-iran-in-row-over-tehrans-criticism-of-gcc-union.ashx?utm_source=twitterfeed&#038;utm_medium=facebook#axzz1v5bSZ7Qp\" 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%3D9845&amp;text=Hamad+moves+to+cede+Bahrain%27s+sovereignty+to+al+Saud%2C+blames+Iran+for+%E2%80%9Cgross+violation+of+its+sovereignty%E2%80%9D+&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahrain, Iran in row over Tehran\u2019s criticism of GCC union 17 May, 2012 &#8211; Reuters DUBAI: Bahrain has summoned Iran\u2019s charge d\u2019affaires to protest against what it called a \u201cgross violation of its sovereignty\u201d in a row after Tehran criticized efforts by Gulf Arab states to forge closer political and military union. Arab heads of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=9845#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":[3030],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9845"}],"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=9845"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9847,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9845\/revisions\/9847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}