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Bahrain also urged its citizens in Lebanon "to leave immediately," in the statement carried by state news agency BNA.
Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the Iran-backed Hezbollah, on Saturday pledged support for the Arab uprisings in Libya, Bahrain and Yemen, saying his movement could provide unspecified help.
"We are here to tell them: 'We are with you, we support you... We are ready to come to your aid in your best interests and ours, to the best of our ability'," he told a crowd in Beirut.
On Sunday, Sunni-ruled Bahrain hit back by branding Hezbollah a "terrorist organisation" and slammed Nasrallah's comments as "blatant interference," warning they could damage Lebanon's interests in the Gulf.
Security forces in Bahrain on March 16 crushed a month-long pro-democracy protest at Manama's Pearl Square.
Fifteen Bahraini Shiites have been killed since the protests erupted last month, according to a toll from Bahrain's main Shiite bloc, Al-Wefaq. The interior ministry has reported the deaths of four policemen.
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Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the Iran-backed Hezbollah, on Saturday pledged support for the Arab uprisings in Libya, Bahrain and Yemen, saying his movement could provide unspecified help.
"We are here to tell them: 'We are with you, we support you... We are ready to come to your aid in your best interests and ours, to the best of our ability'," he told a crowd in Beirut.
On Sunday, Sunni-ruled Bahrain hit back by branding Hezbollah a "terrorist organisation" and slammed Nasrallah's comments as "blatant interference," warning they could damage Lebanon's interests in the Gulf.
Security forces in Bahrain on March 16 crushed a month-long pro-democracy protest at Manama's Pearl Square.
Fifteen Bahraini Shiites have been killed since the protests erupted last month, according to a toll from Bahrain's main Shiite bloc, Al-Wefaq. The interior ministry has reported the deaths of four policemen.
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