The Iranian cell planned attacks in Kuwait, Minister says (Reuters)

KUWAIT (Reuters)-the Foreign Minister of Kuwait, said: last year, the Gulf Arab State were complemented by the Iranian spy cell to monitor the US military presence and resources explosives to bomb the "strategic" facilities. "We are talking about the cell, which was only to keep track of and store (u.s.) military presence, which is in their opinion, the hostile forces, State-of-the-art-American presence in Kuwait of a catch are landed either in-but it exceeded," Sheikh Mohammad al-Salem al-Sabah told the Dubai-based Al-Arabiya television.

"They had explosives and the intention to explode vital facilities in Kuwait. They were the names of the officials and had very sensitive information. This indicates a bad intentions to harm the security of Kuwait ".

OPEC-Member Kuwait hosts Camp Arifjan, a vast Us base in the desert capital logistics services, which shall act in accordance with the licensing of neighboring Iraq, the Us forces for staging point on the South side.

United States is in the air and naval installations in the Gulf Arab States, some of which are little more than 200 km (120 miles) to the coast of Iran. The US central command forward headquarters to keep, although the Qatar Bahrain hosts the Us Navy Fifth Fleet.

The Court last month convicted two Kuwaiti Iranians and Kuwaiti was sentenced to death in a case that has strained Kuwait and the Islamic Republic of Iran, the relations between the of the alleged spy ring, as part of the State-of-the-art.

Earlier this month Iran expelled three Kuwaiti diplomats from tit for tat Move after the Gulf emirate, it said the three diplomats from Iran, the throw away line in the spy allegations.

The move came after the three Iranian diplomats expelled from Kuwait, Kuwaiti officials had said.

Kuwaiti media said may 2010 that the authorities had arrested number of people, Kuwaitis and the metropolitan area of espionage for Iran in the fisheries sector. Media reports said they were accused of gathering information on the Kuwaiti and US armed forces sites in the Iranian revolutionary guards.

But Sheikh Mohammad said Kuwait still wants good relations with Iran. "We fully reject the severing ties with (Iran)," he said, although he added that Iran needs to deal with the Gulf Cooperation Council States, "sovereign" and not "the subject".

Iran's relations with its neighbours, the United States allied Gulf Arab, who provide the US forces in the different modes, has soured because of popular uprisings were limited to Government forces.

Sunni Muslims ruled the Gulf Arab States accused Iranian Shi'ite power interfering in their affairs, when Tehran was opposed to the sending of Saudi Arabia and u.a.e. in any of the American Bahrain protests in March, the Shi'ite majority.

(Reports, Mahmoud Habboush; WRITTEN By Eman Goma; Editing Mark Heinrich)