Kuwait expels Iranian diplomats over 'terror' cell: official

AFP  |  Kuwait City 

Kuwait today ordered the expulsion of about 15 Iranian diplomats after the emirate's top convicted a "terror" cell of links to the Islamic republic, a source has said.

Kuwait also ordered the closure of the Iranian "military, cultural and trade" missions, the official, who asked not to be named, told AFP.


The state's supreme last month sentenced the mastermind of the cell to life in jail and condemned 20 others to various prison terms for alleged links with and Lebanese Hezbollah and plotting attacks in Kuwait.

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