DUBAI
(Reuters) - Kuwait has ordered Iran to reduce its embassy staff and close down
its technical offices in the Gulf Arab state following a court case which
implicated
"Iranian parties" of involvement in a spy cell, state news
agency KUNA said on Thursday.
Last year
Kuwait convicted 23 men - one Iranian and the rest Kuwaiti - of spying for Iran
and Lebanese Shi'ite Muslim group Hezbollah after a cache of guns and
explosives were discovered in a raid of the so-called "Abdali cell"
in 2015.
In a case
which stoked unusually severe tensions between the two OPEC members, Kuwait's
highest court changed some of the sentences last month.
Iranian
state television said Kuwait's Foreign Ministry summoned Tehran’s ambassador
and ordered the number of diplomats to be cut from 19 to four and the closure
of the cultural and military missions.
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