On April 10, the Kuwaiti daily Al Watan reported that Kuwait
International Airport was placed on high alert. The newspaper said security
forces were ordered to monitor air traffic to Kuwait,
particularly passenger planes from neighboring Iraq.
The Iranian opposition has asserted the IRGC was preparing a unit to
conduct suicide strikes in GCC states, with targets to include government
and military facilities. The Ahwazi Islamic Sunni Organization, said to
receive support from neighboring Iraq, said the purported IRGC unit was
trained in several camps in Iran to employ such explosives as C4.
The Kuwaiti sources said the Defense Ministry and Interior Ministry were
cooperating in preventing any air strike on Kuwait. They said names of
passengers boarding or disembarking — particularly those of foreign Arab
nationals — were being closely examined.
Kuwait has reported IRGC activities throughout GCC states. In March,
Bahrain and Kuwait cooperated in the investigation of an alleged
IRGC-sponsored ring said to have laundered money for insurgency networks in
the Gulf region.
"There is close cooperation between GCC states in response to this
threat," the Kuwaiti source said.