VOL. XLIII

No. 21

22-May-2000

SAUDI ARABIA-KUWAIT-IRAN

Dorra Tension Eases, But Iranian, Saudi And Kuwaiti Claims In North Gulf Remain Unresolved

Tension between Iran on the one side and Saudi Arabia and Kuwait on the other over Iranian drilling operations in disputed offshore waters in the northern Gulf eased on 13 May when Tehran announced that the drilling had stopped. Saudi Arabia protested four times in February and March about the Iranian drilling in an area between the kingdom and Kuwait...