Kuwait accuses Iran and its proxies of attacking despite ceasefire; Saudi Arabia acknowledges pipeline struck

Kuwait accuses Iran and its proxies of launching drone attacks targeting it on Thursday despite the two-week ceasefire in the Iran war as Saudi Arabia says recent attacks damaged a key pipeline in the kingdom.

A statement from Kuwait’s foreign ministry, carried by the state-run KUNA news agency, puts new pressure on the ceasefire ahead of planned talks Saturday between the United States and Iran in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan.

Kuwait’s foreign ministry says the drone attacks “targeted some vital Kuwaiti facilities Thursday night.”

Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia’s state-run Saudi Press Agency, quoting an anonymous official, acknowledges a recent attack in the war that damaged its crucial East-West pipeline. That pipeline carries oil out to the Red Sea and avoids the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran maintains a chokehold on despite the pause in the fighting.

Such an assault would mirror the continuing pressure campaign Tehran is waging on the US and its allies, particularly as it tries to force a a halt to the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah.

Following Kuwait’s announcement, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in a statement carried by Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency denies launching attacks on Persian Gulf states on Thursday.

“If these reports published by the media are true, without a doubt it is the work of the Zionist enemy or America,” the IRGC says.

However, the IRGC also launched repeated attacks on civilian targets in the war and also could be using Shiite militias in Iraq to launch assaults, providing deniability for Iran ahead of the talks.

Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.