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May 10th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifah is in Washington for what has been described as talks on a wide range of important issues of mutual concern.
His visit to the US comes as the Al Khalifah regime continues to quell pro-democracy demonstrations in the Persian Gulf kingdom.
Press TV has conducted an interview with Ibrahim al-Mousawi, political analyst from the Lebanese capital, Beirut, to further talk over the issue. What follows is an approximate transcription of the interview.
Press TV: Is the United States ignoring the democratic aspirations of a people, and is this not an outright support of a regime that has been cracking down on its people for well over a year?
Mousawi: Absolutely, actually this is something that is not going to shock anyone. Those who know very well the nature of the American policies, they know exactly that this is a typical policy that represents exactly and authentically.
There is a huge authenticity in what the United States is doing. It has been supporting and continues to support many dictatorships and many regimes who has nothing to do with the democracy.
But the thing is that while the crown prince is visiting the United States now and receiving this warm welcome from the Secretary of the United States, we saw that the Bahraini regime has escalated its procedures and its measures against the demonstrators and against the opposition.
Now, they have like escalated to threaten the figures of the Bahraini opposition and especially Sheikh [Isa] Ghasem. So I believe this is something that would tell a lot about the kind of support they are receiving from the United States.
If the United States recognizes the rights of the people for democratization, for human rights, for pluralism, for self-determination, they would not have welcomed or they would not have received this guest at this time and they would have also urged him to make restraint over the brutality of the police forces and over the military and security forces not to deal the way they are dealing with the people.
Press TV: Mr. Mousawi, how does the US in times like these justify its hypocritical stance towards what has transpired in the region as of last year?
Mousawi: Well, actually, this is a typical example about the hypocrisy of the United States policy. This is a very good example about the double standards, about the inconsistency.
Whenever it boils down to the American interests, it is welcomed; they like it, fine. When it is not, they are going like to be not only indifferent but to support the regimes who are like cracking down over their own people, who would like not give their people any shred of enjoyment for political rights or for any kind of advancement.
What did the oppositions want in Bahrain? They did not want to topple the regime. They have never asked to change the prince or the king.
They were only asking for no constitutional rights; they wanted constitutional monarchy; they wanted a say in their own affairs; they wanted to have more room to get more breath and to be able to exercise their own basic rights.
The United States is not only indifferent, we cannot say it is indifferent; it is supporting the regime against the rights of the people. This is a vivid example about the double standards and hypocrisy of the United States’ policy in the region.
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