MANAMA (Dispatches) –
Bahrain’s foreign ministry confirmed in a statement on Saturday that a Zionist regime officer will be stationed in the country, according to the state news agency.
The foreign ministry said in a statement carried by the state news agency on Saturday the appointment will be related to the work of what it called an international coalition of more than 34 countries.
The Zionist navy officer will be permanently stationed in Bahrain, as the occupying regime and Manama forge closer ties in the military and espionage fields.
The officer, whose identity remains anonymous, will take up his position in the coming weeks, and will maintain communications with the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet, which is based in Bahrain. Channel 13 reported that the appointment was approved by Zionist war minister Benny Gantz.
The move, the report added, was agreed upon during a visit by Gantz, to Bahrain. During his trip to Manama, Gantz signed a memorandum of understanding with his Bahraini counterpart, formalizing the security relationship between the two sides.
Bahrain, along with the United Arab Emirates, signed a pact with the Zionist regime during an official ceremony hosted by former U.S. president Donald Trump at the White House in September 2020. Sudan and Morocco followed suit later in the year and inked similar U.S.-brokered normalization deals with the occupying entity.
Palestinians condemned the deals as a treacherous “stab in the back” of their cause against the decades-long Zionist occupation.
Last month, the U.S. launched a naval exercise in the Middle East, dubbed the International Maritime Exercise 2022 (IMX 22), bringing together the navies of the Zionist regime and allegedly 60 countries in the region, including Saudi Arabia.
Washington recently pledged to deploy the U.S. Navy guided missile destroyer USS Cole and 5th generation fighter jets to the region under the guise of supporting its ally, the UAE, in the face of retaliatory attacks by Yemen.
It also announced a possible $65 million sale of parts for Homing All the Way Killer (HAWK), Patriot and Terminal High Altitude Air Defense (THAAD) missile systems to the Emirates.
According to the Associated Press, “a promised deployment of the Cole and the advanced fighter jets means more American equipment soon will be in the Emirates”.