'Kuwait against any attack on Iran'

Wednesday Jul 20, 201106:53 AM GMT



Wed Jul 20, 2011 6:34AM GMT

Kuwaiti Defense Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah has said his country is against any attack on Iran.


“We will never accept any invasion against Iran and this issue is our red line,” the Kuwaiti official told Iran's Ambassador to Kuwait Rouhollah Qahremani-Chabok on Tuesday, IRNA reported.

The Kuwaiti minister added that his country will not pose any threat to the Islamic Republic, calling for the expansion of ties with Tehran.

Al-Sabah also stressed on establishing peace and security in the region through bilateral cooperation.

The Iranian envoy, for his part, said that there is no limitation to the expansion of ties between Iran and Kuwait.

“The government of Iran is eager to have friendly ties with all Persian Gulf littoral states,” Qahremani-Chabok added.

The ambassador also invited Kuwaiti military officials to take part in Iran's military drills.

Iran's new ambassador to Kuwait arrived in the country in May to officially start his tenure as head of the Iranian diplomatic mission in the Persian Gulf state.

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Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has shot down a US spy drone which was flying over the central Iranian province of Qom, a lawmaker says.


A member of the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of the Iranian Majlis (Parliament), Ali Aqazadeh Dafsari, said on Tuesday that the unmanned spy plane was flying near the Fordo nuclear enrichment plant in Qom province when the IRGC's Air Defense units brought it down, Javanoline.ir reported on Tuesday.

The official stated that the US drone was on a mission to identify the location of the Fordo nuclear enrichment plant and gather information about the nuclear facility for the CIA, Dafsari stated.

Earlier in the day, Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast had said that the country is installing a new generation of uranium enrichment centrifuges in the country's nuclear facilities to enhance the Islamic Republic's peaceful nuclear program.

As a signatory to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran has every right to develop and acquire nuclear technology meant for peaceful purposes.

In addition, the IAEA has conducted numerous inspections of Iran's nuclear facilities but has never found any evidence indicating that Iran's civilian nuclear program has been diverted to nuclear weapons production.