Kuwait said Thursday it referred suspects accused of affiliation with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to court on charges of crossing the country’s maritime border and infiltrating a prohibited military zone, Anadolu reports.
Kuwaiti authorities said May 13 that they had detained IRGC members who “tried to infiltrate” its territory after a “clash” with the army. Kuwait also summoned Iranian Ambassador Mohammad Toutounchi and handed him a protest note.
The Public Prosecution said the IRGC-affiliated members were arrested after unlawfully entering the country, crossing its maritime border and infiltrating a prohibited military zone, according to local newspapers, including Al-Nahar and Al-Anbaa.
The suspects were detected by armed forces assigned to secure the site and were intercepted inside the military zone in an incident that “revealed an organized operation,” the prosecution said.
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