Kuwait’s army said it is confronting Iranian drones, without providing further details on the number of drones involved, their target, or the outcome of the response. It is not yet clear whether the incident is connected to the wider escalation between the US and Iran.
The statement comes as Iran has accused the United States of carrying out a “barbaric attack” near a children’s cancer hospital in Ahvaz, in the country’s south-west, according to the Iranian foreign ministry.
Foreign ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei said in a post on X that Shahid Baqaei Hospital, a children’s cancer treatment centre in Ahvaz, was evacuated overnight after a US strike on a nearby location. He said the strike caused severe suffering and anxiety for the children being treated there and forced an emergency evacuation of 211 patients undergoing chemotherapy. Baghaei compared the incident to Israeli strikes on healthcare facilities and described it as a war crime against children fighting for their lives.
The US had not commented on the allegation.
The claim comes as the US military has intensified its strikes and widened its list of targets inside Iran in recent days. Iranian state media has reported explosions in several cities in the country’s north and south, as well as around the capital, Tehran.
Iran’s army spokesperson, Mohammad Akraminia, said Tehran did not wish to confront its regional neighbours, telling Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency that the country had no conflict with neighbouring and Islamic states and had always sought cooperative, brotherly relations in the region. His remarks came despite an earlier statement from another Iranian military official threatening to strike infrastructure across the Middle East.
Iran has separately warned it would retaliate if its own infrastructure is targeted, after US President Donald Trump threatened that the US military could strike Iranian bridges. Ebrahim Zolfaghari, a spokesperson for the Iranian military’s Khatam al-Anbiya central headquarters, said in a statement carried by state media that “all infrastructure in the region will be crushed.”
Zolfaghari also said Iran would never allow the US to interfere in the Strait of Hormuz, describing this as a red line the country would not permit to be crossed.
(File photo/With information from Reuters and The Guardian)
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