Detained teachers are ‘Iran spies’
Issue at accusation stage, says Saudi Interior minister
Saudi Arabia has acknowledged it detained eight Bahrainis who local media had said were suspected of spying for Iran, Reuters reported from Riyadh yesterday.
Saudi newspapers and news websites had said several Bahrainis were arrested in February near a desert military installation. They claimed to have lost their way.
“The issue is still at the accusation stage and the investigations will reveal the truth,” Interior Minister Prince Nayef was quoted as saying.
Detained teachers are ‘Iran spies’
Issue at accusation stage, says Saudi Interior minister
Saudi Arabia has acknowledged it detained eight Bahrainis who local media had said were suspected of spying for Iran, Reuters reported from Riyadh yesterday.
Saudi newspapers and news websites had said several Bahrainis were arrested in February near a desert military installation. They claimed to have lost their way.
“The issue is still at the accusation stage and the investigations will reveal the truth,” Interior Minister Prince Nayef was quoted as saying.
“The issue is being exaggerated,” he added, in an apparent reference to reports in Saudi media that the detainees were being questioned over links to Iran.
Tensions have developed between Tehran and US-allied Gulf Arab governments over Iran’s growing influence in the Arab world since the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq and its nuclear energy programme.
“We have heard from the Bahraini government that Saudi was not filed any formal charges against them,” Bahrain Centre for Human Rights vice president Nabeel Rajab said.
“I think they have been victims of the tension in the region between Iran and the US and the Gulf countries. They were in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
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