Kuwait files complaints to U.N. against IRGC

CAIRO -7 August 2017: Kuwait filed a number of complaints to the United Nations against the Iranian navy's repeated incursions into Kuwaiti territorial waters, reported a Kuwaiti newspaper.

A source told the newspaper that the incursions were specifically into the nine oil-containing areas.

A Kuwaiti citizen was searched by IRGC guards near one of the areas Saturday afternoon and was stopped and questioned before making him sign something in the Iranian language, the source added.

The source said that he did not witness the incident, but that the coastguard was informed of the incident after it occurred.

The incident was located about 20 kilometers outside regional waters, which is under the supervision of the Kuwait Naval Forces.