{"id":212610,"date":"2026-06-04T05:40:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T05:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/one-killed-and-63-hurt-in-iran-attack-on-kuwait-airport-as-trump-says-ceasefire-talks-ongoing-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T05:40:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T05:40:52","slug":"one-killed-and-63-hurt-in-iran-attack-on-kuwait-airport-as-trump-says-ceasefire-talks-ongoing-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/one-killed-and-63-hurt-in-iran-attack-on-kuwait-airport-as-trump-says-ceasefire-talks-ongoing-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"One killed and 63 hurt in Iran attack on Kuwait airport as Trump says ceasefire talks ongoing – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

US and Iran exchange more strikes but Trump says he is not looking to escalate and there is no need for boots on the ground
Kuwait\u2019s military said Iranian strikes that hit a terminal at its international airport killed at least one person and wounded 63 in the first deadly attack in the Gulf since a ceasefire on 8 April came into effect.
The US and Iran<\/a> also exchanged fresh missile and drone strikes, further jeopardising efforts to secure a new ceasefire agreement between Washington and Tehran.
Donald Trump said in an interview released on Wednesday that talks with Iran were continuing and he was not looking to escalate, adding: \u201cWe don\u2019t need boots on the ground now.\u201d
He later claimed Iran was \u201cpretty close\u201d to signing a peace agreement with the US and \u201cit could happen over the weekend\u201d.
But Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, said Iran was \u201cplaying with fire\u201d after the Kuwait attacks and Trump could order a \u201cfull-scale return to military action\u201d if negotiations fail. \u201cIt\u2019s [Trump\u2019s] decision: Israel<\/a> is ready, and the US forces are ready,\u201d he added.
Netanyahu also took aim at European leaders including France\u2019s Emmanuel Macron who have criticised the Israeli military campaign, saying \u201cthe way European leaders cater to radical Islamic minorities in their own countries is shameful\u201d.
He added: \u201cThey know we\u2019re protecting them [by attacking Iran] as well, but they don\u2019t have the guts to stand up and line up with the right thing that will save our civilisation against these barbarians.\u201d
Overnight, US forces fired a Hellfire missile to disable a tanker trying to break through the American blockade of the strait of Hormuz and later said they had repelled Iranian reprisal strikes and attacked sites on Iran\u2019s Qeshm Island.
Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it had attacked the US Fifth Fleet headquarters in Bahrain with missiles and drones in response to the strike on Qeshm, a claim the US military\u2019s Central Command denied.
The latest exchange of fire began when US Central Command (Centcom) said it targeted an unladen tanker \u2013 the Botswana-flagged M\/T Lexie \u2013 on Tuesday. Centcom said an aircraft fired a missile to disable the tanker\u2019s engine as it passed through international waters toward Iran\u2019s Kharg Island near Kuwait. The crew apparently ignored repeated warnings over a 24-hour period. Iran responded with the drone strike on a passenger terminal at Kuwait\u2019s airport.
Kuwait\u2019s defence ministry spokesperson, Brig Gen Saud Abdulaziz Al-Atwan, described the attack as \u201ccriminal Iranian aggression which resulted in significant material damage to the building and injuries\u201d.
Kuwait\u2019s state news agency said civil aviation authorities had suspended traffic and transferred incoming flights to alternative airports.
A statement from Iran\u2019s foreign ministry blamed Kuwait and Bahrain for the attacks, condemning what it called the \u201ccolonialist use by the United States of the territory and infrastructure of countries in the region to advance its aggressive plans against Iran\u201d. It said the incident \u201cemphasises the direct and unmistakable responsibility of the leaders of Kuwait and Bahrain for last night\u2019s acts of aggression\u201d.
Kuwait\u2019s deputy foreign minister, Hamad Suleiman al-Mashaan, summoned Iran\u2019s charg\u00e9 d\u2019affaires, Hamed Hamid Yaqoubi Far, to formally protest over Iran\u2019s continued attacks. Kuwait also ordered a reduction in Iranian embassy staff, declared two Iranian diplomats persona non grata and gave them 24 hours to leave the country, the foreign ministry said.
US forces also said they had shot down three one-way attack drones \u201claunched by Iran toward civilian mariners that were rightfully transiting regional waters\u201d.
The IRGC said in a statement: \u201cLate last night, the aggressive US military struck an Iranian oil tanker near the strait of Hormuz with an aerial projectile, causing damage to the tanker\u2019s engine room \u2026 these responses should serve as a lesson.\u201d
The military adviser to Iran\u2019s supreme leader threatened more missile and drone strikes should the US renew its attacks on Iran.
\u201cEvery shot fired and every attack will be met with a deluge of missiles and drones,\u201d Mohsen Rezaee posted on X, adding that \u201cthe aggressor will swiftly be punished\u201d.
Trump said on Wednesday he would like to meet Iran\u2019s supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei. \u201cI would like to meet him, and we probably will meet at some point, depending on how it all works out,\u201d Trump told the New York Post\u2019s Pod Force One podcast, adding: \u201cI\u2019m not hearing he\u2019s doing great. If you believe the stories, he\u2019s missing a lot of different parts.\u201d
Khamenei is thought to have been seriously injured in the attack that killed his father, the former supreme leader Ali Khamenei, on the first day of the war.
The latest exchange of strikes underlines the lack of political progress in resolving the Middle East crisis, despite upbeat claims from the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio<\/a>, in his first appearance before the Senate foreign relations committee since the US and Israel launched their war on Iran.
During congressional testimony on Tuesday, Rubio said the war in Iran \u2018\u2018is over\u201d.
Rubio reiterated claims on Tuesday that a deal was within reach, and claimed Tehran had agreed to negotiate aspects of its nuclear programme that it had refused to discuss even a month ago.
Rubio said it was \u201cnot a guarantee that ultimately it will lead to a deal that\u2019s acceptable\u201d, but added: \u201cThere is the prospect before us, which could happen today, it could happen tomorrow, it could happen next week.\u201d
His comments were in direct contrast with the messaging from Iran, which has indicated it would suspend peace talks with the US in protest against Israel\u2019s offensive in Lebanon<\/a>, threatening the collapse of negotiations with Washington.
Iran\u2019s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, said: \u201cThe ceasefire between Iran and the US is unequivocally a ceasefire on all fronts, including in Lebanon. Its violation on one front is a violation of the ceasefire on all fronts. The US and Israel are responsible for the consequences of any violation.\u201d
Israeli warplanes have launched dozens of strikes across southern Lebanon despite the new agreement supposedly brokered by Trump aiming to bolster the tattered ceasefire in Lebanon.
The US president said on Monday that he had stopped an imminent Israeli strike on Beirut<\/a> and had spoken to Netanyahu and representatives of Hezbollah who agreed that \u201call shooting will stop\u201d.
But on Tuesday, Lebanon\u2019s state-run National News Agency reported 30 Israeli strikes across the south. Near the city of Sidon, rescuers recovered the bodies of six members of the same family, including two children and a woman, after an Israeli strike. Lebanon also said an Israeli strike hit a location near Beirut on Wednesday
Trump confirmed reports that he had described Netanyahu as \u201ccrazy\u201d, saying he was \u201ca little bit perturbed\u201d that Israel\u2019s campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon was complicating US-led efforts to advance peace talks with Iran.
According to analysts, Israel wants to inflict as much damage as possible on Hezbollah before a potential peace deal with Iran stops its offensive.
Netanyahu told CNBC on Wednesday that he and Trump were aligned on the goal of disarming Hezbollah in order to achieve peace between Israel and Lebanon.
The Israeli military also issued a new evacuation warning for the southern Lebanese city of Nabatiyeh before new strikes, accusing Hezbollah of violating the ceasefire.
The M\/T Lexie is the sixth ship that the US military has disabled since its blockade of Iran began on 13 April. The US military said it had so far redirected 122 vessels that were seeking to enter or exit Iranian ports.
Over the weekend, US forces hit Iranian radar and drone sites, to which Tehran responded by targeting a military base in Kuwait<\/a> that it claimed was involved in the US operation.
Meanwhile, despite the ceasefire in Gaza, Israel has continued to launch attacks on the strip. Israeli strikes killed three Palestinians in Gaza on Wednesday, health officials said, and the Palestinian militant group Hamas said an end to such attacks was crucial to further talks on safeguarding a US-brokered ceasefire.
Additional reporting by Reuters<\/em><\/p>\n

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