Wikileaks: "US sees no evidence of Iran's hand in Bahrain unrest ..."

"Each time this claim is raised, we ask the GOB (government of Bahrain) to share its evidence," the US embassy reported in a secret dispatch in August 2008. "To date, we have seen no convincing evidence of Iranian weapons or government money here since at least the mid-1990s ... If the GOB had convincing evidence of more recent Iranian subversion, it would quickly share it with us..... The majority of Bahraini citizens are part of the Shia underclass, and their grievances, expressed both in legal political activity and in street skirmishes between youths and police, are at the center of all domestic politics here.""