Kuwait answered the airport strike with a diplomatic clock: BBC reported Wednesday that one person was killed and more than 60 injured in Iranian drone strikes on Kuwait International Airport, then identified the dead person as an Indian citizen, citing India's foreign ministry condemnation. [1]

The same BBC account says Kuwait's foreign ministry ordered two Iranian diplomats to leave within 24 hours and summoned Iran's charge d'affaires, turning the strike into a public receipt of airport casualties, state attribution and expulsion. [1]

On June 1, this paper said US strikes had given the Iran vote an operating record, and Kuwait now supplies the kind of consequence that makes authorization arguments harder to keep in floor-speech form.

Iran's IRGC claimed the attack as retaliation for US strikes on an Iranian oil tanker and Qeshm Island, while US Central Command said it launched self-defense strikes and intercepted or shot down Iranian missiles and drones aimed at Kuwait and Bahrain; the earlier BBC strike-exchange story supplies the prelude of US radar and drone-control strikes, Iranian targeting of US forces in Kuwait, and the stalled deal text. [1] [2]

AP adds the wider diplomatic frame, with Trump saying Israel's Lebanon fighting is complicating Iran talks, and the CENTCOM press page identified in planning returned 403 in this session, so this brief uses BBC's quoted CENTCOM material rather than pretending the official page was read. [3]

-- YOSEF STERN, Jerusalem