On Friday, the Kuwaiti Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned the Iranian ambassador to Kuwait, Mohammad Irani, where he met with Khaled al-Jarallah, the deputy foreign minister.
According to Kuwait News Agency, the summons came against the background of "repeating the statement of the commander of the ground forces in the Revolutionary Guards in Iran, in which he stated that Ali Al-Salem base in Kuwait participated among other bases in the region in the operation that was carried out near Baghdad airport recently."
The agency said that Al-Jarallah expressed Kuwait’s resentment and surprise at the repetition of these statements, and reiterated his country's denial of any aircraft flying from Ali Al-Salem base.
Al-Jarallah reminded of previous positions of the General Staff of the Army, in which it denied the participation of any of the Kuwaiti bases in the Baghdad airport operation.
The agency revealed that Al-Jarallah asked the Iranian ambassador "to issue from officials in Iran to clarify the truth of the aforementioned Kuwait position, and that such statements that would offend the relations between the two countries should not be repeated."
The American forces killed the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Qassem Soleimani, along with Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis, deputy commander of the Popular Mobilization, in the bombing of a car they were traveling in at Baghdad airport early this month.
And after that, the Iraqi "Asaib Ahl al-Haq" movement - close to Iran - announced that the American plane that bombed the Soleimani convoy and the engineer was launched from Kuwait, according to a statement of the movement carried by the Anatolia Agency, but the Kuwaiti Chief of Staff denied at the time that the news was true.