Americans for Democracy and Human Rights in Bahrain accused the US President Donald Trump of giving their blessing for the security operation launched by the Bahraini government today Diraz.

Clashes broke out between demonstrators and Bahraini regime forces in several areas across Bahrain. Shops were closed in many villages, as youths set tires ablaze, blocking a number of streets.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Jawad Zarif said that the first concrete result of the US President Donald Trump’s meeting with Gulf rulers in Riyadh is the deadly attack on peaceful protesters in Bahrain today.

How did the demonstrators react to yesterday’s verdict? What is their response to the Interior Ministry’s notices? Will they end their sit-in after an entire year of protesting in the square opposite to Ayatollah Qassim’s house?

A circulated photo (Tuesday May 23, 2017) showed the deployment of Bahraini security forces over the roof of Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim’s house.

Mystery surrounds the fate of Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim, highest Shiite religious leader in Bahrain, since the security attack by Ministry of Interior forces Tuesday dawn (May 23, 2017) to disperse protest outside Sheikh Isa’s house in Diraz.

Residents of Diraz are facing huge difficulties in making normal phone calls, as they confirmed that the internet services in the area have been cut.

The Ministry of Interior announced that it has arrested 50 Bahrainis during a security raid on the village of Diraz, west of the capital Manama to disperse a peaceful protest outside the house of Shiites leader Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim.

The Bahraini regime’s heavily armed security forces attacked (Tuesday May 23, 2017) the inside yard of the country’s Shiite majority leader, Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim, and arrested protesters there.

Human Rights Watch condemned the Diraz security operation conducted by Bahraini regime forces Tuesday morning (May 23, 2017), and described it as a crackdown on freedom of expression.

Bahrain was struck by deep security turmoil today morning (Tuesday May 23, 2017) after authorities raises the town of Diraz, home to the country’s Shiite majority spiritual leader, Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim.

A protester was killed Tuesday in a Bahraini police raid on a sit-in by supporters of a leading Shiite cleric put on trial in the Gulf state, a rights group said.

Yemen’s Ansarullah stated that any security operation targeting the spiritual leader of Bahrain's Shiite majority, Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim, “will not have favorable consequences.”

Activists said security forces killed a protester during a raid on the home village of Bahrain's Shi'ite Muslim spiritual leader on Tuesday.

: Bahrain police on Tuesday opened fire on a long-running sit-in in support of a leading Shiite cleric in the Sunni-ruled Gulf state, hit by years of unrest.

Youth Mohammad Kadhem Zainuldine (39 years) martyred after receiving gunshots by the forces affiliated to the ministry of interior while raiding Diraz village, where thousands are protesting outside Sheikh Isa Qassim’s house.

Iranian Parliamentary Director General for International Affairs and Assistant to Parliament Speaker, Hossein Amir Abdollahian said that recent court ruling against Sheikh Isa Qassim would aggravate conditions in Bahrain.

A Bahraini court on Sunday sentenced revered Shiite cleric Isa Qassim to a suspended one-year jail term for illegal fundraising and money laundering, a judicial source said.

Bahrain witnessed today Sunday many angry protests denouncing the court’s sentence issued against religious leader Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim, over charges of managing the Shiite religious Khums ritual.

Information reported that the Ministry of Interior summoned on Sunday the heads of Diraz-based obsequies, and asked them to intervene to disperse the sit-in crowd outside the house of Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim.