Iran condemns execution of 2 Shias in Bahrain

TEHRAN

Iran has condemned the execution of two Shia activists in Bahrain on terrorism-related charges.

On Saturday, Bahraini authorities executed two men on charges of joining a "terrorist" group and plotting attacks in the Gulf states.

The executions came despite calls for clemency by human rights groups.

Abbas Mousavi, a spokesman for Iran's Foreign Ministry, said the executions reflect Bahrain's "wrong policy of suppression of protesters instead of choosing the path to rationality and trying to resolve the self-inflicted crisis through reconciliation with the people".

"Intensification of security-policing approaches would not help settle the crisis in Bahrain,” he said in statements cited by the semi-official ISNA news agency.

Bahrain was rocked by revolt in 2011, when pro-democracy protests led by Shias erupted in the tiny Gulf state as part of that year’s "Arab Spring" uprisings.

TEHRAN

Iran has condemned the execution of two Shia activists in Bahrain on terrorism-related charges.

On Saturday, Bahraini authorities executed two men on charges of joining a "terrorist" group and plotting attacks in the Gulf states.

The executions came despite calls for clemency by human rights groups.

"Intensification of security-policing approaches would not help settle the crisis in Bahrain,” he said in statements cited by the semi-official ISNA news agency.

Bahrain was rocked by revolt in 2011, when pro-democracy protests led by Shias erupted in the tiny Gulf state as part of that year’s "Arab Spring" uprisings.