MESOP EAST KURDISTAN / IRAN : AN ANGRY QASSEM SOLEIMANI STATEMENT

Iran and Hezbollah reacted angrily to news that the Bahraini government had its country’s foremost Shia cleric stripped of his citizenship; Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force Commander Qassem Soleimani issued a statement saying that the move stepped over “a red line whose crossing will set fire to Bahrain and the region and will leave people with no path but armed resistance.” http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/06/soleimani-bahrain-quds-force-isa-qassim-iran.html?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=New%20Campaign&utm_term=%2AMideast%20Brief