Kuwait says it foils infiltration operation by Iran’s IRGC
Key takeaways
- Kuwait arrests four men it accuses of being in Revolutionary Guard and conducting failed infiltration of Bubiyan Island.
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- During a confrontation with Kuwaiti forces on the island, gunfire wounded one Kuwaiti service member, the ministry said.
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Kuwait arrests four men it accuses of being in Revolutionary Guard and conducting failed infiltration of Bubiyan Island.
xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogle Add Al Jazeera on Googleinfo. A sign shows the way to the construction site at the Mubarak al-Kabir port project on Bubiyan Island, Kuwait [File: Gustavo Ferrari/AP]By Al Jazeera Staff Published On 12 May 202612 May 2026Kuwait has arrested four men it accuses of being members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) after they allegedly tried to infiltrate Bubiyan Island by sea and injured a Kuwaiti soldier.
The Ministry of Interior said in a statement published on X on Tuesday that the operation took place on May 1 and the naval officers arrested “aboard a fishing boat specially chartered to carry out hostile actions against Kuwait” admitted they had been tasked by the IRGC with “infiltrating”.