TEHRAN (AFP)-Iranian police dispersed hundreds of youths Tuesday on an Asian Champions League match between Iranian and Saudi sides protest Saudi military support to Bahrain in crushing a pro-democracy movement.
Match between Iran's Persepolis and the Saudi team Al-Ittihad some 300-400 young people dressed in black and carrying the flag of Bahrain began protesting. They were first rounded up and isolated in a section of stands before being ejected from the stadium shortly after the second half began.
Demonstrators, some of whom were arrested, shouted "death to the Al-Sauds" and "death to the Al-Khalifas" with regard to the ruling dynasties in Saudi Arabia and neighbouring small Bahrain.
Saudi Arabia had already unsuccessfully sought to have the match won 3-2 Persepolis, to play in another country for security reasons.
Iran is a predominantly Shiite Muslim country which repeatedly expressed its solidarity with the demonstrators in Bahrain, a Shiite majority country, as the required reforms from Sunni Muslim dynasty reference for a preliminary ruling them.
In the middle of March a Saudi-led Gulf military force Bahrain on his Government's request. Liberated Bahrain security forces to crush the protest movement.
Manama, for its part, accused Tehran of supporting the demonstrations.
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