Iranian drone attack on Kuwait airport, 1 killed, over 60 injured

International Desk

An Iranian drone strike on Kuwait International Airport killed one person and injured more than 60 others, local officials said. The victim was later identified as an Indian national. India’s Ministry of External Affairs condemned the attack and said several other Indian citizens were among the wounded.

A spokesperson for Kuwait’s Ministry of Defense described Wednesday’s attack as “Iranian criminal aggression.” The Foreign Ministry said several diplomatic missions were damaged. Following the strike, Kuwait ordered two Iranian diplomats to leave the country within 24 hours and summoned Iran’s charge d’affaires.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, however, denied responsibility for the airport attack, claiming the damage resulted from a malfunction involving U.S. missile interceptors. U.S. Central Command rejected the allegation, calling it false and saying Iran had carried out the attack “deliberately and without justification.”

The IRGC had previously said it launched attacks against U.S. bases in the Gulf in retaliation for what it described as U.S. strikes on an Iranian oil tanker and targets on Qeshm Island. CENTCOM said two Iranian missiles fired toward Kuwait and three aimed at Bahrain were intercepted or destroyed. Iran, in turn, claimed it had struck a U.S. naval vessel in the Gulf of Oman, an assertion CENTCOM denied.

The escalation comes as ceasefire discussions between the United States and Iran remain stalled. President Donald Trump said Iran “really wants to make a deal.” He also said Iran’s Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, was “involved” in the talks and expressed interest in meeting him in the future.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Congress that the United States had not offered sanctions relief in exchange for reopening the Strait of Hormuz. He said any easing of sanctions would be tied to Iran’s nuclear program. During a heated Senate debate, Rubio said, “The war is over.”