KUWAIT TIMES: MANAMA: Bahrain's press condemned yesterday claims by a hardline Iranian newspaper that the Shiite-majority Gulf archipelago is an Iranian province which should be returned to the Islamic republic. "Such claims represent an outrageous interference in the affairs of an independent and sovereign state," said the Al-Ayyam daily in response to comments by Hossein Shariatmadari, managing director of Iran's Kayhan newspaper, who is appointed by the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Bahraini press outraged by Iran territorial claims (more)
Mark Alexander
