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Kuwait recalls envoy to Iran

Kuwait has recalled its ambassador to Iran following attacks on Saudi missions by Iranian protesters

Iranians hold posters of Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr

Kuwait has recalled its envoy to Iran following attacks on Saudi missions by Iranian protesters. (AAP)

Kuwait has recalled its ambassador to Iran, state news agency KUNA reports, after Gulf Arab allies Saudi Arabia and Bahrain severed relations with Tehran following attacks on Saudi missions by Iranian protesters.

"An official source at the Kuwaiti Foreign Ministry said that the ministry recalled the Ambassador of the State of Kuwait to the Islamic Republic of Iran on Tuesday morning January 5 2016, against the backdrop of the attacks carried out by crowds of demonstrators," the agency reported.

The protests followed Saudi Arabia's execution of Shi'ite cleric Nimr al-Nimr.


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