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10.05.26 - 21:09
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Bahrain Intensifies Crackdown On Shia Communities, Arrests Dozens Over Alleged IRGC Links (ZeroHedge)
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Bahrain Intensifies Crackdown On Shia Communities, Arrests Dozens Over Alleged IRGC Links
Via The Cradle
Bahrain's Interior Ministry announced on Saturday the arrest of 41 citizens, including multiple Shia religious leaders, over alleged ties to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
The ministry said security services uncovered the alleged network through "investigations, security reports, and previous Public Prosecution cases related to espionage involving foreign entities." The detainees are accused of "espionage involving foreign entities and sympathy with blatant Iranian aggression."
AFP via Getty Images
Around 30 Shia Muslim clerics were among the 41 arrested, as the Gulf monarchy intensifies a campaign of raids and arrests predominantly targeting Shia religious figures and seminary teachers in Bahrain.
The arrests mark a new security escalation by Manama and form part of a continued policy of restrictions against clerics in the country. The Bahrain N...
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01.04.26 - 20:33
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Amazon′s Cloud Unit In Bahrain "Disrupted" By Iranian Strike (ZeroHedge)
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Amazon's Cloud Unit In Bahrain "Disrupted" By Iranian Strike
Just one day after the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps threatened U.S. companies across the Middle East, the Financial Times reported late Tuesday morning that an IRGC strike had damaged Amazon's cloud computing infrastructure in Bahrain.
The FT cited Bahrain's interior ministry, which said civil defense teams were "extinguishing a fire in a facility of a company as a result of the Iranian aggression."
Local authorities did not identify the company, disclose the type of air-delivered munition used, and/or provide further operational details about the strike.
But according to a person familiar with the incident cited by the FT reporters, the damaged site was part of Amazon's cloud computing operation, a reminder that civilian infrastructure, such as data centers and other digital infrastructure, is increasingly exposed to cheap one-way attack unmanned aerial systems.
Amazon's Service Health page on ...
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