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July 10th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast on Tuesday voiced Tehran’s deep concerns over acts of violence against clerics and the brutal suppression of anti-government protest rallies in the region, which has left several people killed and wounded.
Mehmanparast stressed that Riyadh must heed the people’s legitimate demands and stop the use of force against the protesters.
On Sunday, Saudi security forces opened fire on demonstrators in Qatif, who were protesting against the detention of prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nemr al-Nemr. At least three people were killed and many others injured in the attack.
The cleric was wounded after regime forces fired at his car in Awamiyah. There has been no word on his condition and whereabouts.
Since February 2011, Saudi protesters have held demonstrations on a regular basis in the Eastern Province, mainly in the Qatif region and the town of Awamiyah, calling for the release of all political prisoners, freedom of expression and assembly, and an end to widespread discrimination against Shia Muslims.
However, since November 2011, when Saudi security forces killed five protesters and injured many others, the demonstrations have increasingly turned into protests explicitly against the rule of the Al Saud regime.
The Saudi interior ministry issued a statement on March 5, 2011, prohibiting “all forms of demonstrations, marches or protests, and calls for them, because that contradicts the principles of the Islamic Sharia, the values and traditions of the Saudi society, and results in disturbing public order and harming public and private interests.”
In June, Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud ordered the country’s security forces to go on a state of high alert due to what he called a “turbulent situation.”
According to Human Rights Watch, the Saudi regime “routinely represses expressions critical of the government.”
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