{"id":3981,"date":"2026-06-04T10:52:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T10:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/?p=3981"},"modified":"2026-06-04T10:52:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T10:52:47","slug":"iran-directly-targeted-kuwait-airport-says-us-central-command","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/2026\/06\/04\/iran-directly-targeted-kuwait-airport-says-us-central-command\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Directly Targeted Kuwait Airport, Says US Central Command"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The United States Central Command has accused Iran of carrying out a deliberate drone attack on Kuwait International Airport, rejecting Iranian claims that damage to the airport was caused by an American interceptor missile.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a statement released on Wednesday, CENTCOM described the incident as a &#8220;deliberate, calculated and unjustified&#8221; attack targeting the civilian airport.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The US military command strongly denied assertions made by Iranian officials that an American missile used to intercept incoming threats was responsible for damage to the airport&#8217;s passenger area.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to CENTCOM, Iran&#8217;s account of the incident is &#8220;completely false,&#8221; insisting that the airport was directly targeted by Iranian drones.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The statement emphasized that the attack struck a civilian aviation facility and accused Iran of intentionally targeting non-military infrastructure during the incident.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The competing claims come amid heightened regional tensions and ongoing military exchanges involving Iran, the United States and their<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Central Command has accused Iran of carrying out a deliberate drone attack on Kuwait International Airport, rejecting Iranian claims that damage to the airport was caused by an American interceptor missile. In a statement released on Wednesday, CENTCOM described the incident as a &#8220;deliberate, calculated and unjustified&#8221; attack targeting the civilian airport. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kuwait-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3983,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981\/revisions\/3983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}