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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.
A picture taken on June 25, 2019, shows the Bahraini capital Manama skyline. - Co-host the United States is holding out the prospect of $50 billion of investment to the Palestinians and their neighbours, but the Palestinian Authority is boycotting the conference, believing that the United States and Israel are trying to buy them off and impose political solutions. (Photo by STR / AFP)        (Photo credit should read STR/AFP via Getty Images)

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. 

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