5 held in Bahrain for disclosing info to IRGC

Five individuals were arrested in Bahrain for allegedly providing “sensitive” information to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the kingdom’s ministry of interior said Sunday.

The detainees took photographs and recorded coordinates of vital sites within the Kingdom and have provided them to IRGC for the purpose of targeting them, it said.

“Five individuals were arrested and identified a sixth suspect who is at large abroad, after they participated in collecting and passing on accurate and sensitive information to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard through terrorist elements located in Iran,” the ministry said in a statement.

The “detainees took photos and recorded coordinates of a number of vital and significant locations, as well as some hotels in the kingdom, and sent the information to the IRGC, which helped in the targeting of those sites during Iranian attacks” on the country.

Last week, Bahrain’s Ministry of Interior also arrested four people on charges of spying for IRGC.