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Mohamed Fahmy: Iran’s brazen attack on Kuwait airport shows the war is far from over

Iran also reportedly insists that negotiations only advance once hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon come to a halt

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Iran’s cowardly overnight attack on Wednesday on a civilian airport in Kuwait, which left dozens of people critically injured and claimed one life, is a stark reminder that the war is far from over.

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When I entered Kuwait at the start of the war in March, I had to drive four hours through the desert from Saudi Arabia because the airport had been repeatedly targeted by Iranian drones and missiles. When I left for Canada, it was still closed. My family and many Kuwaitis had only just celebrated its reopening two days earlier, before this brazen attack that left an Indian worker dead and injured 63 civilians and sent several into critical condition. Some are now fighting for their lives in hospitals, while others have undergone complex surgeries, including amputations.

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Iran defended its cowardly attack with 13 ballistic missiles and 17 drones as retaliation for a U.S. strike earlier that day on an Iranian oil tanker and targets on an Iranian control center in Qeshm Island, after the vessel allegedly ignored repeated warnings and violated the U.S. naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz imposed on April 13. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) vowed revenge, declaring that “disrupting the security of the Strait of Hormuz will carry a heavy price for the aggressive U.S. military.”

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