A tiny Mid East nation at the center of decades-old war finds itself caught in another
CNN
For the Persian Gulf’s oil-rich and mostly cosseted residents, Iran’s pummeling has been as unexpected as it has been terrifying. Many expats have beaten a retreat home, as Iran launched missile and drone salvos, tearing up airports, apartment blocks and oil terminals.
For the Persian Gulf’s oil-rich and mostly cosseted residents, Iran’s pummeling has been as unexpected as it has been terrifying. Many expats have beaten a retreat home, as Iran launched missile and drone salvos, tearing up airports, apartment blocks and oil terminals.
For the people of the tiny nation of Kuwait – just 50 miles across the sea from Iran -the conflict is a re-awakening of a decades-old nightmare when it found itself at the heart of the first Gulf War.
In Kuwait City, at the northern end of the gulf, Khalid Al-Ozaina, a spritely 70-year-old fisherman squints into the warming sun as he recalls Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s invasion of the country on August 2, 1990. “That was the last time we were banned from fishing,” he says.
Around him hundreds of pleasure boats from the fishing club he runs, sit high and dry, marooned on the dock.
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