A new report revealed on Wednesday that Tehran is spreading explosives in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain by supplying to small bomb factories built by its proxies.
Bomb parts found by Saudi Arabia and Bahrein security forces reportedly match explosives Iran is sending to Houthi militias in Yemen, a report by Conflict Armament Research (CAR) showed.
Iran has been backing militants in Yemen and Bahrain for years by providing military and financial supports.
Arab News revealed on Wednesday, citing CAR, that, “The electrical components for improvised explosive devices (IED) were also identical to those seized from a ship off the coast of Yemen in 2013.”
The ship, which was full of missiles, rockets and ammunition, was intercepted by US and Yemeni forces, and UN expert said Iranian regime was behind the shipment at that time.
“The link raises concerns that Iran-backed militant groups have tried to spread bomb-making expertise into Eastern Saudi Arabia from cells in Bahrain,” Arab News cited CAR researcher, who studied IED parts captured from militant groups between 2013 to 2018 in Bahrain.
“The components either organized in Iran or are linked to Iranian-backed supply networks in the region,” the Research group revealed.
The study has also indicated that the collected evidences suggest that “the increasing domestic capacity of militant factions to manufacture homemade explosives— and IED more broadly—may extend from Bahrain to nearby regions of Saudi Arabia.”
Arab countries blame Iran for destabilizing the Middle East with its support of proxy forces in the entire region.
