On air 1700GMT: Should the Bahrain Grand Prix go ahead?

It certainly will happen, according to the country's information minister. He's been Tweeting that it has been agreed in a meeting with the body that runs F1, the FIA, and will now take place on 30 October.

The race had been scheduled to open the season, but was cancelled because of the unrest in the country. Now, with the state of emergency lifted, the circuit's chairman Zayed Rashid Alzayani says "We feel we are in position to have the event back."

Speaking before the meeting at which the decision was confirmed, Bernie Ecclestone, who runs F1, outlined the criteria for the race being reinstated, saying "This has to do with whether people... I don't know, to be honest, with this occasion whether people are concerned with their safety if they go or whether people are concerned with what has happened in the past."

But not everyone is happy about it.

The teams, who have been called upon to boycott the race by more than 300,000 people in an online petition, are believed to be against a return to Bahrain.

And before the decision was made Red Bull driver Mark Webber said on Twitter that "When people in a country are being hurt, the issues are bigger than sport."

Fans have reacted with some outrage too. Here's locomotivesuk:

Total shocker that F1's going back to Bahrain. They boycotted South Africa during Apartheid, they should do the same now.

What do you think? Is this the right decision? Should sport be kept separate from events like the Arab Spring?