Addressing a conference in Tehran Saturday on the latest developments in the Islamic awakening movement in Bahrain, Moussavi pointed to the role of the Saudi forces in the suppression of the Bahraini protesters and the West’s silence about the Manama regime’s suppressive acts, and said that the West and Riyadh “are fearful of a change in the geopolitical structure of the region”.

The regional geopolitics will be changed in case of Shiites’ victory in Bahrain and Yemen, he said.

As regards Riyadh’s plot to annex Bahrain to Saudi Arabia, Moussavi said that Riyadh has abandoned the plot since the annexation would change the population structure in the interests of the Shiites, which would, in turn, cause security problems for Saudi Arabia.

In July, a prominent Bahraini opposition figure said that Saudi forces are still playing an active role in the suppression of Bahraini protesters.

The leader of Bahrain’s Al Wefaq National Islamic Society Sheikh Ali Salman announced that Saudi forces wear Bahraini police uniforms in their crackdown on anti-regime protesters in Bahrain.

He added that the Peninsula Shield Force uses Bahraini police uniform when cracking down on anti-government protesters.

Anti-government protesters have been holding peaceful demonstrations across Bahrain since mid-February 2011, calling for an end to the Al Khalifa dynasty’s over-40-year rule.

Violence against the defenseless people escalated after a Saudi-led conglomerate of police, security and military forces from the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC) member states – Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Qatar – were dispatched to the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom on March 13, 2011, to help Manama crack down on peaceful protestors.