TEHRAN, July 10 - Sheikh Isa Qassim, the spiritual leader of Bahrain’s Shiite majority, who has been under house arrest for more than 400 days, left Manama for treatment in London on Monday following a deterioration in his health, his aides said.
TEHRAN, July 02 - Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are using Bahrain as "trial balloons" for warmer ties with Israel, the Haaretz daily reports.
TEHRAN, June 19 - An Israeli delegation is reportedly due to travel to Bahrain later this month for a UNESCO event in Manama. The visit is likely to trigger a fresh public outcry against the Al Khalifah regime’s warming relations with Tel Aviv.
TEHRAN, June 19 - The Bahraini regime has resorted to using Jordanian forces in the clampdown on the peaceful protests in the Persian Gulf country, a local report said.
TEHRAN, June 16 - Imprisoned prominent Bahraini activist Hajer Mansoor Hassan has been finally taken to hospital after being denied medical treatment for three months.
TEHRAN, June 05 -Bahraini King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, supported by the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, is reportedly devising plans to get rid of the kingdom’s long-serving Prime Minister Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifah, and replace him with a member of his inner circle.
TEHRAN, June 03 - Courts in Bahrain have handed down prison sentences to at least 12 anti-regime protesters as the ruling Al Khalifah regime presses ahead with its heavy clampdown on political dissidents and pro-democracy activists in the kingdom.
TEHRAN, June 03 - Courts in Bahrain have handed down prison sentences to at least 12 anti-regime protesters as the ruling Al Khalifah regime presses ahead with its heavy clampdown on political dissidents and pro-democracy activists in the kingdom.
TEHRAN, May 31 -A court in Bahrain has handed down life sentences to six more activists over their alleged role in a 2014 bombing that hit the flashpoint village of Diraz, the second such verdict in a matter of two days.
TEHRAN, May 27 - Bahrain, one of the Saudi-led quartet of countries boycotting Qatar, says there is no solution in sight for the diplomatic crisis with Doha that has dragged on for almost a year.
TEHRAN, May 13 - Bahraini parliament has approved a controversial bill preventing all members of dissolved opposition groups and organizations from running for elections, a fresh step by the small Persian Gulf island country in suppressing the dissent ahead of parliamentary polls this year.
TEHRAN, May 13 - Bahrain's main Shia opposition group, al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, has demanded the resignation of Foreign Minister Sheikh Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifah over his support for Israel’s latest missile attack on Syria.
TEHRAN, May 3 - Amnesty International expressed concern over “unfair” trials for civilians at military courts in Bahrain and called on King Hamad bin Issa Al Khalifah to order the retrial of four men who have recently been sentenced to life imprisonment.
TEHRAN, April 30 - The Bahraini regime has razed to the ground a recently reconstructed Shia mosque without any prior warning as part of a heavy-handed crackdown on dissent in the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom.
TEHRAN, April 29 - Bahraini authorities have barred members of a delegation from the European Parliament's Subcommittee on Human Rights from entering the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom as the ruling Al Khalifah regime presses ahead with its heavy-handed crackdown against pro-democracy activists and opposition figures.
TEHRAN, April 25 - Bahrain’s highest military appellate court has upheld death sentences against seven anti-regime activists as the ruling Al Khalifah regime presses ahead with its heavy clampdown on political dissidents and pro-democracy activists in the kingdom.