Baku, Azerbaijan, Mar. 27
By Fatih Karimov – Trend:
The Islamic Republic’s foreign ministry has rejected reports about having ties with a "terrorist cell" in Bahrain, suspected of involvement in a bomb attack on a police bus in February.
The spokesman of the Islamic Republic’s foreign ministry, Bahram Qasemi, rejected Bahraini interior ministry’s statement that says the 14-member cell was working under direct supervision from two exiled Bahrainis living in Iran.
Qasemi advised Bahrain to stop “repeating baseless claims against Iran,” the Iranian foreign ministry’s official website reported Mar. 27.
He further called on Bahrain to respect the rights of its nationals instead of playing the blame game and repeating unfounded allegations.
Bahrain’s state news agency BNA said that six of the arrestees received military training in camps under Iran’s IRGC supervision, five had been trained by the Iraqi Hezbollah group and three received training in Bahrain.
The group is also suspected of plotting to attack "senior officials," according to Bahrain’s interior ministry’s statement.
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