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Kuwait hit again
Iranian attacks on Kuwait’s power-generation and water desalination facilities continued into a fourth consecutive day, with Kuwait’s Ministry of Electricity, Water and Renewable Energy saying that “Late yesterday several power and water desalination plants were subjected to attacks for the fourth day in a row, causing fires at a number of their facilities.”
“CNN: The Kuwaiti government said on Tuesday that Iran targeted water desalination and power-generation plants last night, on the fourth consecutive day of attacks on the country’s critical infrastructure”
Kuwait said the fires were brought under control and that “a number of generating units went out of service,” while CNN reported Kuwait had accused Iran of targeting its power-generation and water-desalination plants several times over the past week.
The Media Line described how Iranian attacks on Kuwaiti power-generation and desalination facilities have exposed a vulnerability reaching “directly into homes, hospitals and businesses,” and it said Kuwait reported strikes on two consecutive days with fires and damage disrupting electricity production.
The Media Line also said Kuwait obtains roughly 90% of its drinking water through desalination, and it warned that a strike on a power station can disrupt water supplies even if the desalination plant itself remains standing.
Officials, missiles, and strikes
Kuwait’s armed forces said they intercepted hostile projectiles over the country’s airspace, with Major General Saud Abdulaziz Al-Otaibi’s spokesman statement saying, “the armed forces have detected, since dawn today, hostile ballistic missiles and drones within Kuwaiti airspace, which have been intercepted and dealt with.”
In the same account, the Kuwait Army statement added that “the reprehensible Iranian aggression continues to target civilian and vital facilities in the country,” pointing specifically to strikes on installations affiliated with the Ministry of Electricity, Water, and Renewable Energy that caused fires and severe damage.
News18 framed the renewed strikes as a further escalation in the US-Iran conflict after the ceasefire collapsed a week ago, saying “renewed strikes on critical energy infrastructure signal a further escalation.”
The Media Line tied the Gulf-wide risk to the way desalination depends on continuous electricity, warning that repeated attacks could force rationing “within days,” depending on storage, spare capacity and repair times.
What’s at stake next
The Media Line warned that damage to interconnected infrastructure could send failures rippling through civilian life and commercial activity, noting that data centers and artificial intelligence projects require enormous amounts of electricity and, in some cases, water for cooling.
“Iran resumed attacks on Monday night (20) against a water desalination plant in Kuwait, heightening fears of a supply crisis for the roughly 60 million inhabitants in the six Gulf Cooperation Council member states”
It also said Dr. Kaveh Madani of the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health cautioned that repeated attacks could force rationing within days, depending on storage, spare capacity and repair times.
Folha de S.Paulo said Iran resumed attacks on Monday night (20) against a water desalination plant in Kuwait, heightening fears of a supply crisis for the “roughly 60 million inhabitants in the six Gulf Cooperation Council member states.”
Folha de S.Paulo added that the violence continued from Monday night into Tuesday, and it said the U.S. resumed bombing regions in the south and west of Iran “Promising revenge for the death in combat of four soldiers over the weekend.”
