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March 24th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda On Saturday, 31-year-old Ahmad Abdul Nabi was killed after regime forces fired tear gas and used water cannon to break a protest rally in the western Bahraini village of Shahrakan.
Press TV has interview Peter Eyre, a Middle East consultant, to discuss the Bahraini revolution.
The video also offers the opinions of Hayyan Haidar, a Middle East expert in Beirut, and Colin Cavell, the former assistant professor at the University of Bahrain.
What follows is an approximate transcript of the interview.
Press TV: Do you agree it’s a catch-22 situation in Bahrain? People becoming angrier, more determined, more radical, as the ruling family continues to move on with this crackdown and to kill more people?
Eyre: Yes I do actually and its quite interesting the previous gentleman’s past comment about three quarters of the population taking to the streets.
I might add that three quarters of the population are almost Shiites. And of course the government definitely doesn’t want the Shiites to have any part in the government of Bahrain.
They are a very small minority in the government, they’re chances of employment is almost zero and so there is a very good reason for them taking to the streets.
What I find remarkable is that, once again, when the Arab League and the West takes sides with the people like the regime in Libya or whatever, and in the case of Egypt we’d use friendly leaders, when they go pas their use-by date, they didn’t discard them and put another puppet government in.
In this case, there is no chance that the royal family is going to be removed, because the contracts as in Saudi, as in Bahrain who are very close allies, have past tremendous amounts of money on government and defense contracts to the West.
Press TV: When we are speaking about the support that the Bahraini regime, the Al Khalifa’s have been getting, from the United States, from Saudi Arabia, and from Britain as well, we saw the visits taking place between the two sides at the midst of the revolution and while the human rights violations were taking place; what kind of solution do you think Bahrain’s allies including the US and the UK are looking for when it comes to Bahrain?
Are they willing to ask the rulers to relinquish parts of their power?
Eyre: That’s a very difficult question, because again I have to refer to other previous regimes in other areas.
For instance, obviously, the regime in Bahrain is puppet to the West and to Saudi. We have the same situation, or had the same situation with Mubarak in Egypt, but when they tied to against him, the West realized that he got to be removed from office, and now they’re still in limbo waiting for a Western friendly leader, which has not come into tuition.
We saw the same with Saleh in Yemen, who was put there and supported again by the West, and has now fallen by grace, and still no democracy in Yemen, and we have no democracy in Bahrain.
It is now one year one as the gentleman said in Beirut. And I believe a year ago, there was a very similar situation occurred where someone died as a result of tear gas.
You know this is one year on, no change! Where is the Arab League in all this? They take sides when they’re backing up the West against people like in Libya and Syria etc. but when it comes to Bahrain they just close their ears and close their eyes.
Why isn’t something happening? It is quite obvious why, because there is no one to replace the regime at the moment.
Press TV: Peter you say that the Bahraini regime is not going to go down, it’s going to stay in power, what do you think will happen with the Bahraini revolutionary movement, what will be its fate at the current circumstances when it’s not getting the international attention it wants, what’s going to happen?
Eyre: Well I think, as we can see today, it’s one year on, and many people are out in the street, I think the magnitude of the people will eventually force a certain amount of pressure on the government and on the West attitude towards Bahrain.
But I’m afraid that we are probably likely to see a lot more deaths before it gets anywhere to humanitarian, if you can put it that way, before intervention takes place, if there is intervention.
But the UN is a puppet of the US; they’re all working together so at the moment it will get into nothing.
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