Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz chairs a cabinet session. (SPA) July 24, 2017 Saudi Arabia’s cabinet hailed on Monday the security agencies’ efforts in countering terrorism and cracking down on fugitives, affirming that they will continue to pursue anyone seeking to harm the kingdom, reported the Saudi Press [...]
Kuwait emir, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad Al-Sabah Mashari Althaydi July 24, 2017 Kuwait’s decision to expel Iranian diplomats and close down some of the Iranian embassy’s offices suggests that the situation has become intolerable and that Kuwait, the Gulf state, which has been friendly to its Iranian neighbor, has run out of patience. Kuwait has been [...]
Kuwait City. Photo by Mohammad Alatar, Wikipedia Commons. July 21, 2017 Kuwait on Thursday expelled Iranian diplomats after the country’s top court convicted a “terror” cell of links to Tehran. A Kuwaiti Supreme Court ruling last month convicted 21 people of belonging to a cell that had been formed and trained by Iran’s [...]
Iran’s embassy in Kuwait. Reuters photo July 20, 2017 Kuwait told the Iranian embassy on Thursday to reduce its staff and close down some of its technical offices following a court ruling that implicated some Iranians in a spying case, state news agency KUNA reported. “The government of the state of Kuwait decided [...]
July 3, 2017 Al-Ruwais Commercial Port in Qatar has received supplies trucks from Iran's Revolutionary Guard, to aid the Gulf emirate during the boycott imposed by its Arab neighbors, according to Kuwaiti journalist Mubarak al-Bugaily on Saturday. Bugaily shared footage showing trucks carrying Iranian plates, alleged to be at the Qatari port, while there was [...]
Kuwait City (Lindsay Silveira) June 18, 2017 Kuwait’s supreme court on Sunday reduced the death sentence of a citizen convicted of forming a pro-Iranian cell and of plotting attacks to life in prison. Hasan Abdulhadi Ali was sentenced to death by the lower and appeals courts last year after he was convicted of [...]
A general view of Abadan oil refinery in southwest Iran. (Reuters) Apr 20, 2017 Iran will probably be allowed to keep its oil production unchanged if OPEC decides to extend its six-month agreement on output cuts beyond June, Kuwaiti Oil Minister Issam Almarzooq said. “I think they will keep the same level if the [...]
Mar 25, 2017 Kuwaiti police have arrested a man who obtained the Kuwaiti citizenship fraudulently and referred him to the public prosecution. The man was arrested after the police, acting on a tip-off, launched an investigation and discovered the act of forgery. According to the case documents, an Iranian expatriate woman whose Iranian husband had [...]
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani takes part in a news conference near the United Nations General Assembly in the Manhattan borough of New York, U.S., September 22, 2016. REUTERS Feb 15, 2017 Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said his country sought good relations with its Gulf Arab neighbours as he began a one-day trip to [...]
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani now represents a regime on the ropes. (AFP) Feb 14, 2017 Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is to visit Oman and Kuwait on Wednesday, state television reported, amid efforts by Kuwait to mend relations between the Gulf Arab states and Tehran. The Gulf tour comes after Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh [...]
