While relations between Manama and Tehran are at their worst, Bahrain has decided to expel an Iranian diplomat, accusing him of being involved in an espionage case. In mid-March, Iran has criticized the crackdown by the power Bahraini, a protest movement led by Shiite majority in the country, and deployment of troops from other Gulf monarchies in the kingdom.
"The second secretary at the Iranian Embassy, Hujatullah Rahmani, was declared persona non grata for his links with the espionage cell in Kuwait and seventy-two hours to leave Bahrain," he reported, Tuesday 26 April, the official news agency BNA. According to her, "the Iranian charge d'affaires was summoned Monday to Bahraini Foreign Ministry, where the decision was served." "The purpose of this decision taken by the Bahraini Ministry of Foreign Affairs is to divert [attention] and ignore the reality," responded the spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Ramin Mehmanparast, according comments reported by the website of state television.
"This kind of baseless accusation is contrary to good neighborly relations (...), but in line with the will of the division of foreigners," the minister added, saying that Iran reserved the right to decide a similar action. Tehran had requested, March 20, a Bahraini diplomat from leaving Iran in retaliation for the expulsion of an Iranian diplomat in Manama.
Kuwait also announced, on March 31, the expulsion of several Iranian diplomats, accused of conspiring against the security of this Gulf emirate. This decision was announced shortly after the death sentence in Kuwait, three people, two Iranians, of spying for Iran. According to the Foreign Minister of Kuwait Sheikh Salem Al-MohammedSabah Al-Sabah, the network was planning an attack against vital installations in the emirate.
This case has helped to further exacerbate relations between Tehran and its neighbors in the Gulf Cooperation Council (Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, UAE, Kuwait, Qatar and Oman), already strained after sending forces to help the Saudi and UAE Bahraini authorities to suppress the revolt of the population, predominantly Shiite, the emirate. 
"The second secretary at the Iranian Embassy, Hujatullah Rahmani, was declared persona non grata for his links with the espionage cell in Kuwait and seventy-two hours to leave Bahrain," he reported, Tuesday 26 April, the official news agency BNA. According to her, "the Iranian charge d'affaires was summoned Monday to Bahraini Foreign Ministry, where the decision was served." "The purpose of this decision taken by the Bahraini Ministry of Foreign Affairs is to divert [attention] and ignore the reality," responded the spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Ramin Mehmanparast, according comments reported by the website of state television.
"This kind of baseless accusation is contrary to good neighborly relations (...), but in line with the will of the division of foreigners," the minister added, saying that Iran reserved the right to decide a similar action. Tehran had requested, March 20, a Bahraini diplomat from leaving Iran in retaliation for the expulsion of an Iranian diplomat in Manama.
Kuwait also announced, on March 31, the expulsion of several Iranian diplomats, accused of conspiring against the security of this Gulf emirate. This decision was announced shortly after the death sentence in Kuwait, three people, two Iranians, of spying for Iran. According to the Foreign Minister of Kuwait Sheikh Salem Al-MohammedSabah Al-Sabah, the network was planning an attack against vital installations in the emirate.
This case has helped to further exacerbate relations between Tehran and its neighbors in the Gulf Cooperation Council (Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, UAE, Kuwait, Qatar and Oman), already strained after sending forces to help the Saudi and UAE Bahraini authorities to suppress the revolt of the population, predominantly Shiite, the emirate.
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