Press TV: I’d like to get your opinion as a whole. Iran has time and again officially denied the espionage claims. Why are the Saudis pressing on with their allegations?

Saleh: Everybody knows that Saudi Arabia resorts to such accusations against Iran and against Hezbollah and against some activists because the Saudi’s don’t like to see people moving into the south or in Riyadh or in other places in Saudi Arabia.

They know they behave unjustly with the people and they want them to be silent.

The Saudi people and the Bahrainis as well, they go and march, asking for their basic rights, natural rights to talk, to speak, to demonstrate and to be part of the whole regime – the whole system.

The Saudi family and the Bahraini family, as a tribal family, they don’t like to see participants from other places or from other sects or from other parties because they want to have the monopoly over the political and the economic and the social decisions.

This won’t be a useful way of doing politics. I guess it’s time for the Saudi family and others not to resort to accusing people of conspiracy or … Iran or Hezbollah or any other people.

They have to do something for their people. There is a kind of tyranny, of dictatorship inside Saudi Arabia. They have to appease and do something for their people. They don’t want to do that and I guess the Saudis and the Bahrainis will continue their march until they get their freedom and this time I guess soon we will see changes in the Persian Gulf.

After Syria, the Gulf States of the Persian Gulf, they have to count to one hundred before they do atrocities against their people.

Press TV: A name that came up in our story was Sheikh Hassan al-Ziyad, he’s on the long list of detainees in Saudi prisons [who are] being held with no viable charges.

Why aren’t we seeing any tangible initiative community or rights groups to resolve this trend in the Saudi kingdom?

Saleh: Well, we know that the Western countries and especially the Americans, they have the monopoly over the media and the propaganda against Iran and Hezbollah and the resistance axis. That’s why they are trying to screen out and close up such evidence and such incidents in Saudi Arabia. But I guess that won’t go for a long time.

People know now in the West, in the American media, that these two dictatorships will be ended soon and I guess they will not be able to defend themselves. And now there are some voices in the West and in the American media asking their government and Western governments, what are they doing? They are doing everything anti-democracy, anti-freedom and anti-human activities and on freedom of speech.

The time is close enough in order to see some changes in these areas.

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