Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps
created three or four secretive cells of about 10 Iraqi Shi'ite fighters each
near Basra and Samawa, firing at least seven drones at Kuwait, Saudi Arabia,
and the UAE between April 20 and May 17.
Three hit Kuwait, including U.S.
forces at Ali al-Salem Air Base, while others were intercepted; the cells
report directly to Iran, bypassing weakened local militias amid losses to U.S.
and Israeli strikes.
Iraq's Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi called the attacks criminal and pledged joint probes with neighbors, as the U.S. urges dismantling of IRGC-linked groups in a tense post-war Gulf.