Bahrain's foreign minister slammed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Tuesday for criticizing the Sunni-led Gulf kingdom's treatment of its opposition Shi'ite population, AFP reported. "The people of Bahrain are above being addressed by a criminal whose hands are stained by the blood of innocents in Syria, Lebanon and Iraq," Khalid al-Khalifa wrote on his Twitter account.Al-Khalifa's comments came in response to Nasrallah's warning on Monday that the government of Bahrain "should not assume it can continue to oppress its people and pressure the outside world to remain silent."the first Arab state to blacklist Hezbollah as a terrorist group, Al Arabiya reported.The decision was based on the Lebanese militant organization's alleged support and training of radical Shi'ite groups against Bahrain.
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