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Brief Analysis
Manama is still grappling with the complex challenge of developing ties with Israel while coping with homegrown Shia militancy.
On May 6, Bahrain’s state news agency announced that Israeli Mossad intelligence chief Yossi Cohen had visited the Gulf island kingdom to discuss “ways of boosting cooperation and coordination, security issues, regional developments, and issues of common interest.” The word “Iran” went unmentioned, but it no doubt dominated Cohen’s conversations with the heads of Bahrain’s National Security Agency and Strategic Security Agency, reflecting the intimacy of bilateral ties since last year’s Abraham Accords.
Three days earlier, Bahrain’s handling of a related issue tensions with elements of its marginalized Shia Muslim majority population, co-religionists of Iran had come to the fore when the Interior Ministry invited the U.S. charge d’affaires and other senior foreign diplomats to visit Jau prison. Many of the country’s es