Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim pointed to attempts to breach the ranks of opposition, noting that the government wants to get rid of the opposition pressure, without any regard to what benefits the people.

Iran's Shura Council has approved the appointment of Hussein Amir Abdollahian as a foreign minister. Abdollahian served as Iran's ambassador to Bahrain from 2007 to 2010.

Commenting on whether the state is targeting dissidents only with spywares, activist and technical expert Ali Abdulimam said that loyalists who were contacted were convinced that the government is spying on them.

Media activist Yusuf Al-Jamri said that there is a move to sue Israel's NSO Company in the UK. This comes after Citizen Lab issued a report revealing Bahraini government spying on activists' phones.

The Citizen Lab revealed in its report the identities of the two Bahraini activists who were targeted and their phones were hacked by the Israeli NSO Pegasus spyware. The two activists are Moosa Abd-Ali and Yusuf Al-Jamiri, both live in exile.

The Citizen Lab issued on Tuesday (August 24, 2021) a report on the Bahraini government spying on the activists' phone through iPhone spyware by the Israeli NSO group for technology.

In its comment on the Bahraini government relation with the Israeli NSO group, the Citizen Lab explained in its report issued on Tuesday that the government of Bahrain appears to have purchased NSO Group's Pegasus spyware in 2017.

Bahrain said that it allows flights to make use of Bahrain's transit facilities amid evacuations process in Afghanistan.

Morocco and Bahrain may soon open embassies in Tel Aviv, an Israeli official told Anadolu Agency.

Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim said the measures imposed by the Bahraini authorities on the commemoration of Ashura are "a mere political, not sectarian, war"

University and College Union (UCU) condemned the imprisonment of Bahraini academic and human rights defender Dr. Abduljalil Al-Singace. The union said in a tweet that the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs Dominic Raab should intervene to secure Al-Singace's immediate release.

Bahrain's religious scholars issued on Monday (August 16, 2021) a statement condemning the authorities' arbitrary measures to restrict the citizens' commemoration of Ashura religious rituals.

Al-Menbar National Islamic Society issued a statement on the 50th anniversary of Bahrain's independence, in which it stressed on the national demands, allowing freedoms, on top freedom of expression and organization, expansion of the alternative penalty law and settlement of the conditions of prisoners and political detainees.

The Nepali Kathmandu Post newspaper said that although Nepali workers returning home from Bahrain without salary, bonus and other company benefits has been common for years, the issue of wage theft came to the fore after the pandemic.

In its two final episodes of the second season, the "Fact-Finding" program, broadcast by the LuaLua Satellite TV Channel, revealed hundreds of state appointments in Bahrain on a tribal and family basis between 1970 and 2021, in the ministerial, security and judicial bodies, in an episode titled: "Tribal Distribution in the State."

Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid told Moroccan journalists on Thursday that the new Israeli diplomatic mission is expected to open in Bahrain next month.

Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain posted an audio recording of a 61-year-old Bahraini prisoner, Muhammad Hassan Al-Raml, in which he spoke of serious health neglect he is being exposed to while suffering from a serious health condition where he has reached the point of vomiting blood.

The Americans for Democracy and Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) and Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) demanded the Bahraini authorities to launch an independent investigation into medical negligence that led to death of Bahraini prisoner Hasan Abdulnabi Mansoor.

Israel and Bahrain announced on Sunday signing a memorandum of understanding: "Fight Iran in the war of ideas." Reactions on the agreement varied. What is Tel Aviv's aim of this cooperation and why has it chosen Bahrain in particular?

The Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society said that the demands of people of Bahrain are represented in political transition to a real democratic state based on the people's will with them being the source of all authorities and the establishment of a state of institutions and law.