Kuwait's interior ministry said on Tuesday it had arrested four people affiliated with Iran's Revolutionary Guards who attempted to infiltrate the Persian Gulf state by sea, the state news agency KUNA reported.
Iran condemned Kuwait's arrest of four people, saying they were on maritime patrol and entered the gulf country's territorial waters due to "disruption in their navigation".
Tehran also rejected Kuwait's statements that Iran was planning "hostile actions" against the gulf country and demanded that its embassy in Kuwait be granted access to the detained Iranian nationals. One member of Kuwait's armed forces was injured in clashes with the infiltrators, the Kuwaiti interior ministry added.
Kuwait summoned Iran's ambassador and handed him a protest note over what it described as the infiltration of Bubiyan Island by the Revolutionary Guards, the foreign ministry said.
Bubiyan Island is the largest of Kuwait's coastal island chain, located in the northwest of the gulf. Kuwait condemned the incident as a hostile act and said it reserved the right to defend its sovereignty under Article 51 of the UN Charter.
(Reporting by Ahmed Elimam, Jana Choukeir, Yomna Ehab and Menna Alaa; Editing by Timothy Heritage)
