48. 检察院声称，被告组建或加入了一个由伊朗革命卫队资助的恐怖组织，目的是对巴林和在巴林的外国军事基地、会议、输油管道及公众人物进行恐怖袭击。在伊朗将军卡西姆·苏莱曼尼于 2020 年 1 月被暗杀后，巴林官方报纸开始将所谓的恐怖组织贴上“苏莱曼尼小组”标签。检方称，在伊朗将军死后，该组织决定称自己为“卡西姆·苏莱曼尼烈士旅”，并将在巴林的活动集中在为苏莱曼尼的死报仇上。然而，在媒体上出现这些说法之前，向法院提交的案件文件没有提及苏莱曼尼及据称被告在 2017 年至 2019 年期间犯下的大部分罪行。
48. The Public Prosecution claimed that the defendants formed or joined a terrorist group funded by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, with the aim of carrying out terrorist attacks targeting Bahraini and foreign military bases, conferences, oil pipelines and public figures in Bahrain. Following the assassination of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani in January 2020, official newspapers in Bahrain started labelling the alleged terrorist group “the Soleimani cell”. The prosecution claimed that after the Iranian General’s death, the group decided to call itself “the Brigade of the Martyr Qasem Soleimani” and to focus its activities in Bahrain on avenging Soleimani’s death. However, before these claims appeared in the media, the case papers referred to the court made no mention of Soleimani and most of the crimes allegedly committed by the defendants dated from between 2017 and 2019.