Kuwait says reserves right to defend itself after Iranian attacks
Kuwait reserves the right to defend itself following Iranian attacks, the Kuwaiti foreign ministry said in a statement on Saturday.

Several senior Revolutionary Guards commanders and political officials were killed in US-Israeli strikes, a source close to the Iranian establishment told Reuters.
Iran launched missile attacks toward Israel and across Persian Gulf states, with Bahrain, the UAE, Kuwait and Qatar reporting interceptions; one person was killed in Abu Dhabi.
The Pentagon named its mission “Operation Epic Fury,” while Israel dubbed its campaign “Lion’s Roar” and called up thousands of reservists.
Trump said the US had begun “major combat operations,” Netanyahu urged Iranians to rise against clerical rule, and Iran’s leadership vowed a “crushing response” while warning strikes could continue.
Blasts were reported in Tehran, Tabriz, Qom, Karaj, Khorramabad, Kermanshah, Ilam and other cities. Iran’s Supreme Leader’s office in Tehran was targeted, and Iran closed its airspace for six hours.
Kuwait reserves the right to defend itself following Iranian attacks, the Kuwaiti foreign ministry said in a statement on Saturday.
Around 35 ballistic missiles have been launched from Iran at Israel since Saturday morning, the Israeli military said in a preliminary assessment.
Some were intercepted by air defenses while others hit open areas, with medics reporting one person lightly injured by falling missile or interceptor fragments.
Qatar’s foreign ministry condemned missile attacks by the Islamic Republic, describing them as a violation of its sovereignty on Saturday.
The ministry said Doha reserves the right to respond to the attacks.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said all Israeli and US bases in the region had been struck by Iranian missile attacks on Saturday.
The Guards said the operation would continue relentlessly until the enemy is “decisively defeated.”
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine are monitoring the US operation in Iran from President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, where Trump is currently located, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters.
The Israeli military said it detected a new launch of ballistic missiles from Iran on Saturday, with sirens expected to sound in southern Israel.
Residents receiving alerts were instructed to enter bomb shelters, the military said.
Rocket attacks targeted a US military base in Iraq’s Kurdistan region, security sources told Reuters on Saturday.
Iran called on the United Nations Security Council to convene an urgent meeting on Saturday to act to halt what it described as aggression against the country, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei said.
Baghaei also said Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi was “alive and well.”
Saudi Arabia condemned in the strongest terms Iranian attacks on the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar, Jordan and Kuwait, according to a statement carried by foreign ministry on Saturday.
Several senior commanders of the Revolutionary Guards and political officials were killed in US-Israeli strikes, an Iranian source close to the establishment told Reuters on Saturday.