Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was in Kuwait on Monday for a three-hour visit to meet and confer with Kuwaiti senior officials on "expansion of political, economic and cultural cooperation as well as on a host of regional subjects."
IRNA reports that Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jabir al-Sabah stessed avoidance of any stance that would not please Iran, believing that recent developments in Iraq and Tehran's exceptional spiritual influence in that country are matters to be reckoned with in the interest of expanding relations and cooperation between his country and Iran.
While the Emir was busy singing Ahmadinejad's praises, the Iranian leader took the opportunity to lash out at the U.S. forces in Iraq. "The presence of occupation in Iraq is causing the deterioration of security," he said. "We believe that when foreign occupation is ended, a large part of the problems would be solved."
The visit was the first by an Iranian president since the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Their is an ongoing dispute over their maritime borders on the continental shelf in the Gulf which embraces the rich Arash gas field.
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