Iran hands down a protest note to the Kuwaiti ambassador over his country’s unilateral claims over the Arash natural gas field in the Persian Gulf waters.
On December 7, 2023, Chairman of the Mejlis D.Gulmanova accepted credentials from the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the State of Kuwait to Turkmenistan Badr Abdullah al-Munikh.
Move comes following regional downgrade in ties in 2016, after Iranian protesters attacked Saudi diplomatic missions in Iran in wake of Riyadh's execution of cleric Nimr al-Nimr