Like many Kuwaitis, Ghanim Alsulaimani still vividly remembers Iraqi tanks rolling through his hometown when his small Gulf state faced extinction had US troops not liberated it from invasion.<\/p>\n
Now, decades later and six months into the US-Iran war, some are seeing those same American troops as more of a liability than an asset, as their presence has put Kuwait in Tehran\u2019s line of fire.<\/p>\n
Since the Middle East conflict first erupted in late February with US-Israeli strikes on Iran, the Islamic Republic and its allies have hammered Kuwait with recurrent barrages.<\/p>\n
They have targeted civilian infrastructure, including water desalination plants and energy installations, along with bases hosting American troops.<\/p>\n
Iran\u2019s closure of the Strait of Hormuz has put Kuwait, which is locked into the waterway and relies on oil exports for revenue, in a difficult economic position.<\/p>\n
Yet Alsulaimani continues to stand by the United States, even as talks to end the war have stalled, weighing on Gulf economies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Like many Kuwaitis, Ghanim Alsulaimani still vividly remembers Iraqi tanks rolling through his hometown when his small Gulf…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[16474,38,72574,496,714,1411,3588,34,6631,37,35,49,493,101,51],"class_list":["post-263860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-american-troops","tag-donald-trump","tag-dunkin","tag-gaza","tag-gulf-states","tag-hamas","tag-human-rights-watch","tag-iran","tag-iranian-attacks","tag-israel","tag-kuwait","tag-middle-east","tag-saddam-hussein","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-united-states"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117155738825332577","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}