Rafsanjani in Kuwait
Iran's Rafsanjani in Kuwait over nuclear crisis
Iran's influential former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has arrived in Kuwait on a visit likely aimed at easing fears of Iran's Gulf neighbours about its nuclear programme.
US-ally Kuwait and other Gulf Arab states -- all of them Sunni-ruled -- are concerned about the possibility that the current standoff may develop into a full-scale military confrontation and fear of an environmental catastrophe from Iranian nuclear plant being constructed in Bushehr on Gulf waters.
Kuwait's leading liberal newspaper Al-Qabas warned in an editorial Sunday entitled "Welcome Rafsanjani... But," that Gulf states may be the main victims of a possible US-Iranian military confrontation.
"We say but because our Iranian brothers have placed us -- the people on the other bank of the Gulf -- right in the middle of the confrontation... against our will, and we may become its main victim," the daily said.
Iran's influential former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has arrived in Kuwait on a visit likely aimed at easing fears of Iran's Gulf neighbours about its nuclear programme.
US-ally Kuwait and other Gulf Arab states -- all of them Sunni-ruled -- are concerned about the possibility that the current standoff may develop into a full-scale military confrontation and fear of an environmental catastrophe from Iranian nuclear plant being constructed in Bushehr on Gulf waters.
Kuwait's leading liberal newspaper Al-Qabas warned in an editorial Sunday entitled "Welcome Rafsanjani... But," that Gulf states may be the main victims of a possible US-Iranian military confrontation.
"We say but because our Iranian brothers have placed us -- the people on the other bank of the Gulf -- right in the middle of the confrontation... against our will, and we may become its main victim," the daily said.
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