The comments came after an eight-year-old Bahraini boy died due to inhalation of poisonous tear gas fired by the Al Khalifa regime forces during an anti-regime demonstration in the country.

Press TV has conducted an interview with Ibrahim Mousawi, political analyst from Beirut, to further discuss the issue. What follows is an approximate transcription of the interview.

Press TV: How do you assess where the Bahraini revolution has reached at this point? I mean at this point it seems that an elderly person’s life or a child’s life is not worth anything?

Moussawi: Well if we are going to assess the different steps or the different stages that Bahrain revolution has reached to, we could simply say we are talking here about a genuine authentic revolution by the people, people who really believe that they have rightful demands, demands that they have been banned from having it for long time– the basic human rights, the basic citizenship rights, the basic minimum rights that anyone could aspire to in his country is not found there.

Now we see that this harsh, this strong fist of the authorities, this grip is being executing, killing people from different ages is not like trying to find any kind of discrimination or any kind of difference between people and when we talk about this we talk about protesters.

The protesters are peacefully protesting ever since they started their, if you want to call it revolution, if you want to call it upheaval, ever since they started their opposition to the authorities they asked for their basic rights. They never resorted into any kind of violent measures though the authorities tried to stick and to accuse them of different things that were fabricated by the authorities themselves.

The thing is that the authority is trying to put its face and its head under the sands and this is not going to help in any way.

What we can simply say here is that the majority of the people, Shiites and Sunnis, they are against the rulers of Bahrain and they were asking them simply for their basic rights.

Now I can simply say we are only counting time. It has been mentioned early now, I mean that recently it has been mentioned that the authorities are trying to put another plan into effect which is to give nationalities to give citizenship to people being shipped from different parts of the Arab and Islamic world in order to outweigh the majority of the Bahraini people.

This is something that is not going to work with them I believe because it is happening under the eye of all of the people in Bahrain itself and it is not going to work.

Press TV: Mr. Moussawi, I want to go back to this issue of people of all ages being victims in this revolution. How do you believe the international community has responded, if at all?

Moussawi: It did not respond. I mean how many people have to be killed before this so-called international community? I am afraid that we have to redefine, we have to revisit our political terminology in order to introduce a new terminology that could be up to the level of the crisis.

When we talk about the international community who do we mean by the international community? Is it the five permanent members in the Security Council? And if it is so, then you are talking about the majority of them at least actually when we talk about Britain, France and United States of America. They support the Bahraini authorities and they are not in any position to condemn them for what they are doing.

Here I can tell you one simple thing. This is an obvious, this is a very clear indicative that the authorities in Bahrain have lost their tempers and they are on their nerves.

When they target the civilians, when they target the young people, when they target the elderly, when they target the women, when they target all these levels and all of these segments of the society, this means that they have reached to a deadlock and to a dead end and I believe instead of doing this, instead of killing more people, they have to listen and take the lesson into consideration and try as much as they can to bring the rights of the people into effect.

AHK/JR