Alwaght- The Bahraini officials have claimed that they discovered and arrested a group in Bahrain with links to Iran that has been planning to carry out attacks in the country, according to Reuters.
The Bahraini authorities' claims also suggest that five people were arrested while having material for making bombs, as also they were reported to have had cold and combat weapons.
According to the claims of Bahraini authorities, these five people were trained military skills by Iran's IRGC training centers as well as Iraq's Hezbollah Brigades in Iraq and Iran, and aimed at blasting an array of places across Bahrain.
The Bahraini regime for over five years has been subject to popular protests by Shiite majority calling for justice and rights in the country. During these several years, Manama several times accused Iran of intervention in its affairs.
It appears that these claims by Bahraini government at the time being and with this form— with a consideration of Bahrain’s tendency of always accusing Tehran of intervening in its domestic affairs— to a large extent are linked to the regional and international circumstances and also to the increasingly deteriorating internal conditions for Al Khalifa regime.
Internally, in past few weeks, Bahrain witnessed unprecedentedly growing anti-government protests as the regime revoked citizenship of top Shiite cleric of Bahrain Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim, and then accused him of acts that were described as baseless accusations.
Stripping Ayatollah Isa Qassim of his nationality, Western-backed Bahraini regime was faced by tough criticism from the international public opinion. It seems that Al Khalifa tries to justify its move by unveiling new charges.
Three days after the revocation of Shiite leader's nationality, the regime's military forces attacked Al-Daraz District where Ayatollah Qassim’s house is located, clashing with the sit-inners who came around the key leader's home to show backing for him.
Therefore, in a time that the Bahraini regime is undergoing heavy pressures due to its suppressive actions at home against the peaceful protesters, such claims as Iran's interventions in its affairs could suggest that the Shiite people of Bahrain and their leaders are directly linked to Iran, and are playing as Iran's proxies in a bid to destabilize the country— an issue making it justified for Al Khalifa regime to clamp down on the opposition groups.
Additionally, having in mind that the key present-time challenge of the region and the world is terrorism and the world is living a fear of terrorist attacks, such a claim that a group aimed to conduct terror attacks in Bahrain could buy for Manama government a kind of global sympathy, or at least can ease the increased pressures on the regime for crackdowns in the country. In fact, Bahrain found no better time than now to state such accusations against Iran to hit two aims with a single shot.
