Iranian foreign minister visits Kuwait

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is on a regional diplomatic tour and talks have included the war in Yemen.

Al-Monitor Staff
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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif attends the 42nd Session of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Organization of Islamic Coorporation at Bayan palace in Kuwait City May 27, 2015.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif attends the 42nd Session of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Organization of Islamic Coorporation at Bayan palace in Kuwait City May 27, 2015. — YASSER AL-ZAYYAT/AFP via Getty Images

Iran’s top diplomat visited Kuwaiti leaders yesterday.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif met with Kuwaiti Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah al-Khalid al-Sabah, according to the official Kuwait News Agency, and his Kuwaiti counterpart Sheikh Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah on April 29.

In addition to strengthening Iran-Kuwait relations, Zarif and Sheikh Ahmed discussed Syria, Yemen and Libya, according to the semi-official Fars News Agency in Iran.

In January, Kuwait helped mediate an end to the Saudi-Qatar diplomatic feud.  In 2017, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Bahrain has imposed an embargo on trade and travel with Qatar,

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