After Ayatollah Khomeini came to power in Iran in 1979, Tehran made clear its intention to spread its Islamic Revolution throughout the Muslim world.[1] However, the Sunni government of Bahrain oppressed the country's Shia majority long before the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran; for example, journalist Saeed Al-Uwainati and medical doctor Mohammed Gholoom were both tortured to death by the regime’s security forces in 1976.[2] Established with the help of the British (including Ian Henderson), since 1974, the State Security Law allowed torture against mass opposition to the ruling regime.

One of the most dramatic manifestations of answer to such strategy was the failed alleged coup d'état by militants in 1981. The Bahraini regime alleged they were operating under the auspices of the Islamic Front for the Liberation of Bahrain.[3]

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