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After Ayatollah Khomeini came to power in Iran in 1979, Tehran made clear its intention to spread its Islamic Revolution throughout the Middle East. Arab states in Persian Gulf with their large Shia populations were seen as primary targets and the Iranian government immediately set about supporting Persian Gulf Islamist organisations with money, arms, logistics and training in urban warfare. Ayatollah Khomeini founded the first modern Islamic republic Ayatollah Seyyed Ruhollah Khomeini (آیتالله روحالله خمینی in Persian) (May 17, 1900 – June 3, 1989) was an Iranian Shia cleric and the political and spiritual leader of the 1979 revolution that overthrew Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the then Shah of Iran. ...
Protestors take to the street in support of Ayatollah Khomeini. ...
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Shiʻa Islam (Arabic شيعى follower; English has traditionally used Shiite) makes up the second largest sect of believers in Islam, constituting about 30%–35% of all Muslim. ...
One of the most dramatic manifestations of this strategy was the failed coup d’etat by militants in Bahrain in 1981. Operating under the auspices of the Islamic Front for the Liberation of Bahrain, an Iranian-based Islamist organisation, the plan was for a small force of Bahraini militants augmented by Iranian intelligence officers to assassinate the emirate’s leadership in order to prompt a general uprising of Bahraini Shia as a prelude to the installation of a theocratic government. An Iranian based Iraqi cleric, Hojjat ol-Eslam Hadi_al-Modarresi, was to have been put in power as supreme leader of a government of clerics. The Islamic Front for the Liberation of Bahrain was an Iranian based Shia terror group that advocated Islamic revolution in Bahrain against the Sunni ruling Al Khalifa family in the 1970s and 1980s. ...
Ayatollah Sayed Hadi Almodarresi or al-Modarresi (Arabic: هادي المدرسي; transliterated: HÄdÄ« al-MudarrisÄ«), the spiritual head of the now defunct terror organization the Islamic Front for the Liberation of Bahrain, is known throughout the Persian Gulf region for his role in the 1981 failed coup in Bahrain, which if it...
The coup attempt was foiled after a tip off from another emirate when their security services became suspicious of a large party of young men transiting from Iran to Bahrain. The coup plotters were quickly arrested and large arms caches as well as communications equipment and imitation military uniforms were found in sites around the island. Details were uncovered of the plans to assassinate leading members of the royal family and cabinet ministers, while other units were to take over vital infrastructure facilities such as Bahrain International Airport. Bahrain International Airport is located on Al Muharraq, an island on the northern tip of Bahrain, north of the capital, Manama. ...
The attempted coup led to a steep downturn in relations between the states of the newly formed Gulf Cooperation Council and Iran. It was also blamed for increasing fissures in Persian Gulf Arab societies between Sunnis and Shias. ...
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Unlike other Middle Eastern countries where those involved in failed coups have usually been executed, the 73 people arrested were sentenced from between seven years to life imprisonment. They were released in 2001 when all political prisoners were amnestied by King Hamad as part of political reforms. Many of the coup plotters are now active politically in the opposition Islamic Action Society, the successor party to the Islamic Front for the Liberation of Bahrain. Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifah (born January 28, 1950 in Manama, Bahrain) is the current King of Bahrain (from 2002), having previously been its Emir (since 1999). ...
The Islamic Action Party is an Islamist political party in Bahrain which is made up of mostly of Shias belonging the Shirazi faction. ...
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