Kuwait: Iran envoys may be ejected

Sheikh Mohammad al-Salem al-Sabah accused Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards of being behind a spy cell in Kuwait, whose relations with Iran have deteriorated over the past year. “The government will take the required actions towards the [three] diplomats and they should be kicked out,” the foreign minister told reporters at the Kuwaiti parliament. He gave no time frame for any expulsion. Gulf Arab countries are concerned over what they see as the ambition of Iran, a non-Arab Shiite Muslim power, to extend its influence in Arab countries mostly under Sunni rule. Iran’s state broadcaster IRIB said on its website Iran’s Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi had a telephone conversation with his Kuwaiti counterpart. “Iran’s Foreign Minister emphasized on Iran’s fundamental stance on avoiding interferences in other countries’ domestic issues ... and also stressed stability and security in all countries specially in Kuwait,” IRIB quoted Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast as saying.