BAGHDAD, Iraq: Iraq’s Minister for Interior Affairs Bayan Jabor Solagh has launched a fresh attack on Saudi Arabia for what he called its interference in Iraqi affairs.

In an interview aired on Iraq's Al-Furat Television on Tuesday, Solagh said he would be forced to lay bare more facts if Saudi Arabia continued its interference, stressing on what he called human rights violations in the kingdom and the kingdom's treatment of six million Shias as third-class citizens.

"(The Saudis should) create a democratic system and give freedoms, and not grant rights in just dribs and drabs," Solagh was quoted by Reuters as saying in the interview. "We call for democracy and freedom in all the Arab nation."

Jabor repeated his earlier comments, saying: "We were surprised by this unjustified attack ... which they made instead of acting to solve the problem of the Shias in Saudi Arabia who are considered second class citizens".

He also referred to Saudi Arabia's small Ismaili Shia community as receiving "fourth class" treatment. Most of Saudi Arabia's Shias lives in the oil-rich Eastern Province, close to Iraq.

Shias in Saudi Arabia complain of being marginalized by the government.

Saudi Foreign Minister in a visit to Washington expressed his concern over growing Shia power in Iraq.