AFP: Bahrain has decided to recall its ambassador to Tehran in protest at "hostile" comments by Iranian leaders, the official BNA news agency reported on Saturday.

Reuters: Bahrain authorities have disrupted an attempt to smuggle high-grade explosives, automatic weapons and ammunition into the country by sea and have arrested two Bahraini suspects, the Interior Ministry said.

Bahrain said on Saturday it had foiled an arms smuggling plot by two Bahrainis with ties to Iran and announced the recall of the Gulf island kingdom's ambassador to Tehran for consultations after what it said were repeated hostile Iranian statements.

Human Rights activist and member of the European-Bahraini Organization for Human Rights, Fatima Al-Halwachi, said that she received a call from her imprisoned father, Khalil Al-Halwachi, in which he stated that the political prisoners in Dry Dock Prison will start an open hunger strike on Saturday.

The Director of Scholarships, Isa Abdulla Al-Kooheji said It's normal that not all the students who listed medicine as their first choice were granted scholarships, even if their grades were high.

A Bahraini High Criminal Court, presided over by Judge Abdulla Al-Ashraf, set September 17, 2015 as a date for the hearing to look into the cases of 57 accused over the riots that erupted on March 10 in Jaw Central Prison.

Fatima forced herself to stay home all the time over the past three years so that she could study and achieve grades that would qualify her to get a scholarship to study medicine abroad. She; however, was punished because she belongs to a religious sect deemed the enemy in the eyes of the repressive regime in Bahrain.

Bahrain Mirror: The Bahraini Minister of Interior Rashid bin Abdulla Al Khalifa launched a media campaign against Iran on Thursday (July 23, 2015) calling for “National Condemnation” of Tehran’s interference in the Kingdom’s internal affairs.

Some figures of the Muslim Brotherhood in Bahrain described the Al-Quds Library project implemented by the Royal Charity Organization headed by the King’s son Nasser bin Hamad as “normalization of the Zionist entity usurping the land of Palestine.”

The chairman of the Sunni Endowments Directorate said that one of the well-known preachers was banned from delivering speeches for two weeks in Ramadan (Sheikh Jassim Al-Saidi) over allegations that his speech was an agitation.

The Ministry of Labor failed to implement the legal violation approved by the cabinet, Shura council and parliament, regarding the distribution of labor representation seats in the board of directors of the Public Authority for Social Insurance.

In response to the threats made by ISIS, Bahrain decided to hold a unified prayer between the Sunnis and Shiites, and install dozens of surveillance cameras on Shiite mosques across the country. Yet, how was the situation during the past few years? It was the complete opposite.

Bahrain Mirror: The community care advisor in Embassy of Pakistan in the Bahraini capital Manama, Maqsoud Lader Jah, revealed that 100 thousand Pakistanis live in Bahrain with about 20% of them working as security guards in the Bahraini Ministry of Interior.

The “Bawabat Al-Bahrain” website announced its closure after 10 years of work due to a number of prosecutions, as it posted on its page on Saturday (July 18, 2015).

The member of the (dismissed) Ulama Council, Sheikh Mohammed Al-Mensi said that an anonymous group of persons attacked A’ali Grand (Al-Kabir) mosque on the second day of the Al-Fitr Eid by breaking in from one of its entrances and sabotaging its contents.

Bahrain Mirror: The US ambassador to Bahrain, William Roebuck, said that he is impressed by the step taken by the Bahrain Foundation for Reconciliation and Civil Discourse “to gather people from all walks of life in the unified prayer,” looking forward to working with the Crown Prince.

Bahrain Mirror (Exclusive): The family of martyr Kassim Mohsen demanded on Friday (July 17, 2015) establishing an independent investigating committee to inquire into the circumstances surrounding their son’s murder.

Bahrain Mirror (Exclusive): The authorities are expected to release the head of Shura Council of Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society and former Bahraini Member of Parliament, Sayed Jameel Kadhem, on Monday, July 27, 2015 after he served his full 6-month sentence in prison.

Bahrain Mirror: A statement issued by Bahrain’s clerics on Thursday (July 16, 2015) said that civilian armed forces broke into the Gharbi Mosque in Bahrain’s Al-Dair village in the early morning of Wednesday (July 15, 2015), searched the mosque and worshippers and arrested one of the youths.

The BBC said that more than 21,000 tweets were unleashed on Twitter under the “the massacre of scholarships” hashtag which tweeters chose to express their frustration at the distribution of scholarships in Bahrain.