Iran envoy to Kuwait was summoned on Friday after a high-ranking Iranian official linked emirate to the killing of Qassem Soleimani in an US attack last month in Iraq, Al-Arabiya reported.
Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled al-Jarallah has expressed his country’s “amazement” at an Iranian official’s claim about the use of a Kuwaiti air base by US to carry out the attack, which killed Iranian top general.
Amir-Ali Hajizadeh, Iran’s aerospace commander of Revolutionary Guards linked Kuwait to the US attack without providing any evidence.
“MQ-9 UAVs (drones) were flying in the region (at the time of the attack) that had mostly taken off from Kuwait’s Ali al-Salem” base, Hajizadeh told Iranian state television on Thursday.
Kuwait’s Deputy Minister told the Iranian ambassador, Mohammed Irani, that Kuwait had no role in the US attack in Baghdad.
He added that such a claim “risks damaging relations” between Kuwait and Iran.
Last month, Iran’s top general and commander of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps's Quds forces Qassem Suleimani and Hezbollah chief Abu Mahdi Al Muhandis were killed in US strikes in Iraq on President Donald Trump’s order.
