A handout picture released by the official website of the Centre for Preserving and Publishing the Works of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, shows the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's Quds Force, Gen. Qassem Suleimani, attending a meeting of Revolutionary Guard's commanders with Khamenei in Tehran on September 16, 2015. Khamenei warned commanders of the elite Revolutionary Guards to be on alert for "political and cultural" infiltration by the United States. AFP PHOTO

The commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's Quds Force, General Qassem Suleimani (File Photo: AFP)

Iranian General Qassim Sulaimani threatens Bahrain

Al Arabiya English

Published: 21 June ,2016: 12:00 AM GST Updated: 20 May ,2020: 10:46 AM GST

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Bahrain’s decision to strip a Shiite preacher of his citizenship will create “a flame of fire” in the Kingdom and the region, a top Iranian general said late Monday according to state media.

The statement equated preacher Isa Qassim a “red line” and said that its crossing “will create a flame of fire in Bahrain and throughout the region that will leave no option for the people but to resort to armed resistance,” said General Qassem Suleimani, head of Iran’s Quds Force, the Revolutionary Guards' foreign operations arm.

General Suleimani is infamous for overseeing and plotting a large number of terrorist groups and activities in Syria and Iraq

(With AFP)

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