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Iran says Bahrain has crossed line by stripping Shia cleric of citizenship
Monday 20 June 2016 20.33 BST
Last modified on Tuesday 21 June 2016 01.05 BST

Bahrain has stripped the spiritual leader of the kingdom’s Shia Muslim majority of his citizenship, resulting in protests outside his home and furious threats by neighbouring Iran
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The Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander Gen Qassem Suleimani told Manama that it had crossed a “red line”
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“Al-Khalifa [the rulers of Bahrain] will definitely pay the price for that and their bloodthirsty regime will be toppled,” warned Suleimani, who heads the Guards’ elite Quds force
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In a rare statement issued on Monday, General Soleimani warned [...] "the toppling of the regime will only be a small part of the repercussions that will also include armed resistance".

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