Bahrain Jails Nine for Life for Collaborating With IRGC

⚖️ MANAMA — Nine life sentences while Bahrain's king is on Trump's coalition call. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Bahrain announcing mass IRGC collaboration convictions the same week it's publicly aligned in Washington's peace coalition is a domestic loyalty signal — telling Tehran that Manama will not be softened by deal atmospherics. For Iran, losing proxy networks inside Gulf monarchies complicates leverage. For the MOU, it signals Gulf partners are tightening, not loosening, as talks near conclusion.