**Weekly Event (Friday – 21 November 2025): The Arrest of Ibrahim Sharif… A New Phase of the Trilogy of “Despotism, Corruption, and Subordination

**Weekly Event (Friday – 21 November 2025):

The Arrest of Ibrahim Sharif… A New Phase of the Trilogy of “Despotism, Corruption, and Subordination”**

The Public Prosecution in Bahrain has referred the national leader Mr. Ibrahim Sharif to trial on charges related to rejecting normalization with the occupying entity, and calling on Arab peoples to pressure their governments to abolish normalization and support the resistance in occupied Palestine. The date of November 26 has been set for the beginning of the trial.

Observers affirm that the arrest and prosecution of Mr. Sharif mark the inauguration of a new phase in the functional relationship between the Al-Khalifa regime and the Zionist entity—particularly in accelerating the exploitation of what the Zionist-American axis considers “strategic victories” against the resistance and its currents extending among the peoples.

According to sources, the targeting of Mr. Sharif had been pre-planned, and the timing was chosen based on specific domestic and international circumstances. The sources explain that the arrest came alongside the appointment of a new Zionist ambassador in Manama and the return of the Al-Khalifa ambassador to Tel Aviv, creating a favorable environment for tightening the regime’s codified authoritarian grip on opponents, expanding the scope of corruption and the manipulation of national resources, and advancing further in relinquishing national sovereignty and fully aligning with the enemies of the nation.

The Public Prosecution exposed itself through its own statements when it admitted that the charges leveled against Mr. Sharif were related to resisting the Zionist entity. Legal experts noted that these accusations—and the manner in which they were initiated—reveal grave fallacies due to their unprecedented danger on one hand, and their underlying political motives on the other.

Observers explain that even the Arab countries that normalized relations in the late 1970s—most notably Egypt—did not witness such forms of trials or accusations, despite Cairo’s binding “peace” treaty with Tel Aviv. In fact, anti-normalization forces grew stronger after the Camp David Accords, and their influence expanded across other countries.

The conduct of the Al-Khalifa regime can be understood within the broader context of the structural decline of their occupation-based rule in Bahrain and its reaching a radical level of hostility toward the indigenous citizens, severing all ties with them. This has driven the Al-Khalifa increasingly toward full reliance on external protection as the sole lifeline—an indicator of inevitable downfall, as history teaches.