VOA News
Thursday, March 31st, 2011
Kuwait is expelling a number of Iranian diplomats for their alleged links to a spy network.
Kuwait's foreign minister, Sheik Mohammed al-Sabah, announced the deportations on Thursday, two days after a Kuwaiti court sentenced two Iranians and a Kuwaiti national to death on convictions of spying for Iran.
He did not say how many Iranians would be expelled.
The Kuwaiti foreign ministry also summoned a top Iranian diplomat over the case. Tehran denies that its diplomats were involved in spying, calling the allegations “baseless.”
Word of the spy ring first surfaced last May. News reports said Kuwaiti security forces arrested at least seven people, after dismantling a spy cell that collected information on Kuwaiti and U.S. targets for Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards.