, were dependent on `` foreign financing . '' The BNA report specifically referenced money that one suspect supposedly got during a visit to Iran . Another report , released early Monday by Iran 's state-run Press TV , described the arrests and Bahraini claims as `` anti-Iran political theater . '' `` Manama has made similar allegations on a number of occasions , and every time Iran has denied all the charges , '' the Press TV report said . A Bahrain interior ministry spokesman had earlier said , in a statement , that Qatari security authorities initially arrested four Bahrainis who had entered Qatar from neighboring Saudi Arabia . The suspects were carrying documents and a laptop `` containing sensitive security information and details about some places and vital establishments in Bahrain , as well as airline bookings to Syria , '' the spokesman 's statement said . The suspects were also carrying a `` significant '' amount of U.S. and Iranian currency , the spokesman said . The Qatari Security Authority learned that the four suspects left Bahrain `` after being incited by others to head to Iran , '' and then they passed through Qatar and
-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Bahraini authorities on Sunday explicitly tied the recent arrests of alleged `` terrorist cell '' members with Iran , claiming the suspects got funding from that Middle Eastern nation and had ties to Iran 's Revolutionary Guard and Basij , according to a state media report . A day earlier , a Bahrain Ministry of Interior spokesman said authorities had arrested five people for allegedly planning attacks against -- among other targets -- the interior ministry building , the King Fahad Causeway and Saudi Arabia 's embassy in Manama . On Sunday , a spokesman for the public prosecution office -- which has taken over the investigation from the interior ministry -- offered new details about the alleged plotters . Much of the new information was derived from what the official Bahrain News Agency describes as `` confessions made by some of the accused gangsters . '' The BNA report stated the alleged terrorists had connected with `` militant elements in -LRB- Iran 's -RRB- Revolutionary Guard '' and Basij , the volunteer paramilitary group allied with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei . The Bahrain prosecutor 's spokesman claimed the suspected terrorists planning , and operations