Bahrain Mirror (Exclusive): Great minds are always occupied with making achievements while foolish minds are always consumed with envy, resentment, sedition and turmoil, which manages to kill them in the end.

While the Iranian Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, was achieving victories for his country during the nuclear talks, and accomplishing the most significant deal signed by Iran since four decades; while delegations from all around the world are heading to Tehran to make trade deals, since last July 14, international companies are rushing to its markets, and while Iran is signing European deals worth billions of dollars that will revive the economic and political life in the country, the Bahraini Interior Minister Rashid bin Abdullah Al-Khalifa comes out and calls on everyone to join a campaign launched against Iran.

While the Interior Minister was making secret deals to import thousands of mercenaries to suffocate his people, Zarif stood laughing before journalists from the balcony of Palais Coburg, the venue for nuclear talks, in Vienna, celebrating his great accomplishment. While our Interior Minister was smothering our economy with his security plans, Zarif was opening his country's economy to the world, renewing its ties with world powers and beginning a new period of economic recovery that his country hasn't witnessed in four decades.

All this is happening while our Interior Minister is engrossed in his hatred and resentment. He is controlling the heads of Bahraini newspapers and government institutions like muppets so that they would follow him and join his foolish campaign under the slogan: "Denounce the Iranian interference in Bahrain's internal affairs."

It is the same alignment since four decades ago. After these four decades, Iran decided to revive its country and called on world powers to the negotiations table while the weak stood still in their place without moving forward. Instead of making trade deals with countries around the globe like Tehran, the weak officials in Bahrain are only issuing statements and launching hate campaigns against Iran.

The Bahraini Interior Minister hasn't done anything in the past few years but blame all Bahrain's crises on Tehran. Everytime the authorities want to justify their crimes, terrorism, sectarianism, marginalization and discrimination against their citizens, and the sectarian schism they're causing, they throw Tehran under the bus.

Bassiouni attempted to refute these claims in his report but the authorities continued to blame Iran, claiming it has a 30-year-old agenda against Bahrain. The government still accuses every Bahraini calling for his political and democratic rights of treachery and of following and working for the "Safavid" Iranian regime, claiming that he has "double allegiance". The Interior Minister has time and time again threatened dissidents telling them "if they find themselves loyal to Iran, then it's better for them to leave Bahrain, because Bahrain is only for the Bahrainis." This accusation was raised against every dissident even the liberal Sunni opposition member Ebrahim Sharif yet we have never heard any of the dissents utter a word of allegiance to Iran.

This campaign that the Interior Minister has launched in the name of "nationalism" is a clear threat to civil society. For he has clearly said that those who don't join his side have "double allegiance". This is what he said in his statement: "The priority is to have a direct national Bahraini condemnation issued by national institutions, respected religious scholars and clerics as well as government and civil institutions and if anyone refused to join our side then they have chosen to accept the acts of violence, terrorism, and the Iranian interference aimed at threatening Bahrain's security".

The Interior Minister wants the people of Bahrain and the country's institutions and clerics to join his hate campaign and express resentment against Iran, the resentment that is consuming him.

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