Bahrain said Monday it foiled a plot by militants backed by Iran earlier this year to launch attacks on diplomats and foreigners in the island nation home to the US Navy's 5th Fleet.
The announcement came hours after Saudi state television and a Bahraini local newspaper implied the plot was new in their reporting Sunday night, just days after the island kingdom normalized relations with Israel.
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The details of the plot became public as tensions between Iran and the US remain high after the Trump administration claimed to have re-invoked all United Nations sanctions on Tehran over its nuclear program – something disputed by other world powers.
The militants reportedly sought revenge for the US drone strike that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani in January, something long threatened by his colleagues in Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard.
Iran's mission to the UN dismissed Bahrain's claim of Tehran being involved as just "another instance in a long line of preposterous and false allegations, with no basis in truth."
