Kuwait’s announcement, which was carried on the state-run Kuwait News Agency on Tuesday, did not elaborate or say how the Kuwait-Iran diplomatic ties would be affected.
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Earlier on Monday, the United Arab Emirates announced that it was reducing the number of Iranian diplomats in Abu Dhabi and downgrading the diplomatic ties with Tehran.
Saudi Arabia’s General Authority for Civil Aviation on Monday halted all flights to and from Iran following Riyadh’s severing of diplomatic relations with Tehran, the authority said on its official Twitter account.
The worldwide community has called on both regional powers to deescalate the situation that erupted following Saturday’s executions in order to bring an end to the conflicts in Syria and Yemen.
Nimr, a Shia cleric, was a critic of the Saudi monarchy and had led protests in the eastern part of the country, where many Saudi Shiites live.
“We make this point very clearly in public and in private”.
“It’s not having an effect at the moment”, but “it’s something we’re tracking closely”, Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman, said of the escalating dispute between the Sunni Saudi kingdom and the Shia Iranians over the execution by the Saudis of a Shia cleric.
He also reiterated that the attack on the Saudi Embassy in Tehran was deplorable, but added that the announcement of a break in Saudi diplomatic ties with Iran was deeply worrying.
It also called on Iran “to protect diplomatic and consular premises against any intrusion or damage”.
The U.S. military braced Monday for possible fallout from the Iran-Saudi Arabia rift on the campaign against the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. De Mistura is also expected in Iran later this week and in Damascus on Saturday, UN sources said.
Saudi Arabia severed diplomatic ties with Iran on Sunday after Iranian protesters attacked and set fire to the Saudi embassy in Tehran and the Saudi consulate in Mashhad.
As Turkey’s deputy prime minister Numan Kurtulmus pointed out, the Middle East was “already a powder keg”.
State Department spokesman John Kirby said Tuesday morning that his government had “expressed our concerns privately and publicly to the Saudi leaders” about the legal process and executions for several months. He favored elections as a means to reform Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf states and denounced the Shiite-backed Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad.
The countries back opposing sides in Syria and Yemen, where it was reported that Saudi airstrikes had intensified on Tuesday.
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That’s why the only real solution to this political crisis is in Iran’s hands. Riyadh’s interior ministry at the time described him as an “instigator of sedition”.
