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Arms seized in Kuwait came from Iran: Kuwaiti newspapers
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Sun Aug 16, 2015 | 7:21 AM EDT

KUWAIT (Reuters) -
A huge arms cache seized in Kuwait last week was smuggled into the country from Iran, two Kuwaiti newspapers reported on Sunday.

The Interior Ministry said on Thursday
authorities had found ammunition, explosives,
weapons and grenades in holes dug under
houses in an area near the Iraqi border.

Three men who owned the houses were detained.

Al-Anba newspaper reported at the time that
the weapons had been smuggled across the
border from Iraq for use by members of an
Iranian-backed Hezbollah cell. But al-Rai and al-Qabas dailies, citing unnamed sources, reported on Sunday that the weapons had been brought into Kuwait by sea from Iran.

They quoted the sources as saying that the
new information had come from confessions
made by the detainees during interrogation.

Al-Qabas said the number of suspects held had risen to 13. "The suspects have disclosed that there is a direct Iranian line in supplying weapons to Kuwait by sea," al-Rai said.

The Interior Ministry declined to comment.

Another newspaper, al-Jarida, said Iranian
Revolutionary Guards had trained members of
the cell a year ago, along with citizens from
Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, on the use of
weapons and explosives, at an unnamed Red
Sea island.

It said the trainees had traveled to the island
through a port controlled by Yemeni Houthis, an Iranian-linked group which controls much of northern Yemen.

Kuwait, a Western-allied Gulf oil exporter, has been on alert since a suicide bomber killed 27
people in an attack on a Shi'ite Muslim mosque
in the capital, Kuwait City, on June 26.

The interior minister said in June it was at war
with hardline militants, who officials said were
trying to stoke sectarian strife in a state where
the two Muslim sects have traditionally
coexisted peacefully.

Ties between Iran and its Gulf Arab neighbors are strained by suspicions that Tehran is trying to extend its influence into Arab countries including Syria, Iraq and Yemen.


(Reporting by Ahmed Hagagy and Mahmoud
Harby, writing by Sami Aboudi, editing by Angus
MacSwan)
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