Bahrain sentences 51 accused of Iran-linked terror plots
Investigators said the defendants received orders from Iran's powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to stage attacks in Bahrain.
Bahrain’s highest criminal court convicted 51 people of membership in a terrorist organization that was planning to carry out attacks in the Gulf kingdom with support from Iran, the state news agency reported Tuesday.
The public prosecutor said the defendants received orders from Iran’s powerful paramilitary Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. According to investigators, they plotted attacks against economic installations, security sites and the headquarters of the Interior Ministry and the Bahrain Defense Force.
Of the 51 defendants convicted by the High Criminal Court, 27 are outside the country and were sentenced in absentia. The other 24 were arrested last year during a foiled attack on public transportation, according to the state-run Bahrain News Agency.
“The arrested suspects were seized in possession of anti-personnel explosive devices, vehicles and tools used in their manufacture, in addition to Molotov cocktails,” the news agency said.
