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.

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.

Bahrain security forces arrested member of Al-Wefaq Society’s secretariat, Sayed Taher Al-Moussawi.

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.

Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, largest political opposition society in Bahrain, launched an urgent appeal calling on the international community to interfere to stop the security attack, which it described as “massacre”, taking place in Bahrain now.

: 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.

Bahrain's interior ministry said it had launched a security operation on Tuesday in the home village of the country's Shi'ite Muslim spiritual leader, the site of a sit-in encampment of his followers.

Bahrain police say they’ve launched an operation targeting a town where a sit-in has been going on for months supporting a prominent Shiite cleric who had his citizenship stripped by the government.

The first of its kind auction in Bahrain on special number plates that lasted for 2 weeks was closed on Saturday night. The auction included 30 combinations of a new series of plate numbers and was organized by Mazad Company (affiliated to Bahrain Mumtalakat Holding Company) with the participation of Arabian Auction Company.

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.