Kuwait Says Iranian Attack Has Damaged Its Main Airport

New Delhi ( The Indian View team) :

Kuwait’s army said a passenger terminal at the country’s main international airport was damaged by an Iranian drone attack early Wednesday, after a new round of strikes between the United States and Iran.The fresh hostilities came as President Trump said in an interview with The New York Post published Wednesday that Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, was involved in the negotiations to end the war and that he hopes to meet with him.

There was no immediate comment from the Iranian authorities, and it was far from clear whether the hard-line Mr. Khamenei — who is believed to have been injured in the U.S.-Israeli strikes that began the war and hasn’t been seen in public since March — would be willing to meet with Mr. Trump.

Even as the two sides negotiate over a framework to end the war and maintain that the cease-fire between them remains in effect, the United States and Iran have launched a series of attacks in recent days. The U.S. military has described its actions as self-defense, while Iran has said it is retaliating against American attacks.

The Kuwaiti authorities said on Wednesday that one person had been killed in the attack on Kuwait International Airport’s Terminal 1, and the army said multiple people were injured. Kuwait’s Civil Aviation Authority said it had suspended flights and was diverting them to alternate airports. By early afternoon local time, some flights had resumed from a different terminal.

U.S. Central Command said in a statement that Iran had launched missiles and drones at two regional neighbors, Kuwait and Bahrain, as well as civilian mariners in nearby waters. Several projectiles failed in flight, it said, and others were intercepted.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps said it had targeted the headquarters of the U.S. Fifth Fleet in Bahrain and an American vessel it identified as the Panaya. U.S. Central Command said Iran’s Wednesday attacks targeting U.S. bases did not hit their targets.

The U.S. military said it was responding to “aggressive Iranian behavior,” and that the targets it struck included a military ground control station on Qeshm Island, off the coast of Iran. Iran cited the Qeshm strikes as grounds for its own attacks.