Bahrain's Public Prosecution Building, Bahrain. (BNA) January 1, 2021 The high criminal court of Bahrain accused on Thursday the Iran-owned Future Bank, five of its officials and several Iranian banks of money laundering. The bank officials were sentenced to five years in prison and fined 1 million dinars each, report the Bahrain news agency (BNA). [...]
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo testifies during a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing, Feb. 28, 2020. (AP) December 15, 2020 The Trump administration on Tuesday slapped sanctions on an alleged Iranian-backed Shiite group in Bahrain that it accuses of trying to overthrow Bahrain’s government and plotting terrorist attacks on Americans in the [...]
Kylie Moore-Gilbert is a lecturer at Melbourne University. (AFP) December 4, 2020 Iran has launched a media misinformation campaign to justify its claim that the freed academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert was a spy, accusing her of coordinating with a former Bahraini MP to steal secrets for Israel. A state-run TV outlet this week ran a nearly [...]
Abdullatif Al-Zayani, now Bahrain's FM, speaks during a press conference following the Gulf Cooperation Council summit in Riyadh on Dec.10, 2019. (AP) December 2, 2020 Iran’s malign activities in the Middle East are “more blatant than ever,” Bahrain’s Foreign Minister Abdullatif al-Zayani said on Tuesday during the virtual US-Bahrain Strategic Dialogue. Iran’s “malign intent and [...]
A Bahraini forensic police officer inspects the site of a bomb blast in the village of Sitra, south of Manama in 2017. (AFP) November 7, 2020 The Bahraini government sentenced 51 offenders linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) for terror activities, most of them in absentia, according to the government statement issued on [...]
The US Patrol Coastal ship USS Tempest (PC 2) transits from Khalifa Bin Salman Port to Mina Salman Pier in Bahrain on July 3, 2013. (AFP) September 21, 2020 Bahrain said on Sunday it had foiled a "terrorist attack" backed by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Saudi state television Al-Ekhbariya and a local [...]
Bahraini Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Bin Abdullah Bin Hamad Al Khalifa attends GCC meeting in Manama, April 23, 2013. (AFP) September 15, 2020 Bahrain’s interior minister said on Monday that normalising ties with Israel protects Bahrain’s interests and strengthens its strategic partnership with the United States, amid an ongoing threat from Iran. “It [...]
The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). (AP) September 12, 2020 Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Saturday that Bahrain would face “harsh revenge” from its own people and the Palestinians over the Gulf Arab state’s move to normalise ties with Israel. “The executioner ruler of Bahrain should await the harsh revenge of the Mujahideen [...]
The shadow of a woman is cast on a wall of Al-Fateh Grand Mosque as she arrives holding a Bahraini flag at a pro-government rally in Manama February 21, 2012. (REUTERS) September 12, 2020 Iran said Saturday that Bahrain is now partner to the “crimes” of Israel after the two announced a deal to [...]
The total of fines imposed on the Iran Central Bank, other Iranian banks and the three Future Bank officials in seven cases reached $47 million. (Shutterstock) August 28, 2020 Bahrain’s High Criminal Court sentenced three Future Bank officials to five years in prison each and to $1 million fines on Thursday, in the [...]
