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Kuwait arrested four people over alleged links to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on Tuesday, following what authorities described as an attempted maritime infiltration, according to state news agency Kuna.
“Following the Ministry of Defense statement regarding the arrest of four infiltrators who attempted to enter the country by sea,” Kuna said in a post on the social media platform X.
According to the report, the suspects confessed to being tasked with infiltrating the Bubiyan Island aboard a fishing boat allegedly rented specifically to carry out hostile acts against Kuwait.
Meanwhile, Kuwait’s foreign ministry condemned what it described as the infiltration attempt by an armed group affiliated with Iran’s IRGC aimed at carrying out hostile operations inside the country.
The interior ministry said the four detainees included two navy colonels, a captain and a lieutenant commander.
In a statement carried by Kuna, the ministry said the group attempted to enter the Bubiyan Island on May 1 “aboard a fishing boat specially chartered to carry out hostile actions against Kuwait.”
Bubiyan, Kuwait’s largest island, is located in the northern Gulf near the Iraqi border and relatively close to Iranian territorial waters, making it strategically significant.
Regional tensions have sharply escalated since the United States and Israel launched strikes against Iran on Feb. 28, prompting retaliatory attacks by Tehran against Israel and U.S. allies across the Gulf region, alongside disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz.
A ceasefire took effect on April 8 through Pakistani mediation, but negotiations held later in Islamabad failed to secure a permanent agreement.
The truce was subsequently extended by U.S. President Donald Trump without a fixed deadline as diplomatic efforts toward a broader settlement continued.
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