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Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as
The Resistanceand purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, reported al-Arabiya television.
It said that the cell was plotting to carry out bombings in the country.
The cell was headed by twins Ali and Mohammed Fakhrwari, it continued.
Bahrain News Agency said that Ali Fakhrawi and two others had traveled to Iran and Leb at the end of 2011 to demand financial aid from Tehran and Hizbullah.
"They met in Beirut's southern suburbs of Dahieh with Hizbullah chief His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...
and his deputy Sheikh Naim Qassem
... the Grand Vizier of the Hezbullies...
, where they proposed to them the idea of 'reviving' an Islamic movement," it added.
"They requested financial assistance to carry out their terrorist activity in Bahrain and they received encouragement from Nasrallah, who also gave them 20,000 dollars for their cause," said the news agency.
"Ali Fakhrawi traveled in mid-2015 to Iran, where he met members of the revolutionary guards, and later Leb where he met Qassem, who provided further support to his organization and other related terrorist groups," it reported.
The head of the cell is a runaway residing in Iran, while Bahraini authorities succeeded in arresting six of its members, said al-Arabiya.
Hizbullah and Bahrain's relation has witnessed tension since the beginning of a 2011 uprising in the kingdom as the party became a strong advocate of the popular protests.
Ties between Leb and Bahrain reached an all-time low in 2011 when Nasrallah slammed the crackdown on the protesters.
His remarks prompted the Bahraini authorities to suspend the flights of Gulf Air and Bahraini Air between Manama and Beirut for several months.
Tensions between Hizbullah and Bahrain continued through 2015 with the Gulf Cooperation Council condemning in January 2015 Nasrallah remarks on the country as "incitement to violence and discord."
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as early as 2013 and two of whom were designated as runaways, one in Iran.
In November, Bahrain said it had arrested 47 members of a group believed to have links to "terrorist elements in Iran" who it said were planning to carry out attacks in the coming days.
Bahrain recalled its ambassador to Iran in October after it said security forces discovered a bomb-making factory and arrested a number of suspects linked to the Revolutionary Guard.
In March, Bahrain's public prosecutor said it seized bomb-making equipment being smuggled from Iraq aboard a passenger bus for use in attacks.