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The Islamic Front for the Liberation of Bahrain (Arabic: الجبهة الإسلامية لتحرير البحرين) was a Shia islamist militant group〔Minorities and State in the Arab World, edited by Ofra Bengio and Gabriel Ben-Dor, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1999 p177〕 that advocated theocratic rule in Bahrain from 1981 to the 1990s. It was based in Iran and trained and financed by Iranian intelligence and Revolutionary Guards.〔The International Politics of the Middle East by Raymond Hinnebusch, 2003, Manchester University Press, p194〕 ==Aims and activities== The professed aim of the Front was the ‘uprising of all Muslims under Imam Khomeini’.〔Iran’s Persian Gulf Policy: From Khomeini to Khatami by Christin Marschall, Routledge, 2003, p32〕 It came to international prominence as the front organisation for the 1981 failed coup in Bahrain, which attempted to install Iraqi Ayatollah Hadi al-Modarresi as the spiritual leader of a theocratic state.〔Low Intensity Conflict in the Third World Stephen Blank, et al, Inc NetLibrary, Press, Air University (U.S.), 1988, p8〕 Al-Modarresi in addition to heading the IFLB served as Khomeini’s “personal representative” in Bahrain.〔Iran’s Persian Gulf Policy: From Khomeini to Khatami by Christin Marschall, Routledge, 2003, p32〕 According to Daniel Byman of Georgetown University, Iran's backing of the Front was part of a strategy to support radical Islamist groups throughout the region: The Front served as an Iranian proxy〔Minorities and State in the Arab World, edited by Ofra Bengio and Gabriel Ben-Dor, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1999 p177〕 in the 1980s. It is also referred to as a 'virtual organization' of Iranian intelligence.〔Shmuel Bar, (Iranian Terrorist Policy and the “Export of Revolution” ), Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, Institute for Policy and Strategy〕 In Low Intensity Conflict in the Third World by Stephen Blank ''et al.'', it is argued that the Front's attempted coup d’etat in 1981 cannot be understood without reference to Iran’s geo-strategic objectives in its war with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq: 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Islamic Front for the Liberation of Bahrain」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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