In the wake of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's historic visit to Kuwait last month - the first by an Iranian president since the 1979 Islamic Revolution - the two nations began the fourth session of the Iran-Kuwait Security Committee in Kuwait City on Tuesday.
While the discussions reportedly focused on "drug smuggling and controlling marine borders," the larger concern is the ongoing warming of relations between the two - both in the context of their interests in Iraq and in the Iranian nuclear program.
Iran and Iraq fought a brutal war from 1980-1988, Iran has been accused by the U.S. of infiltrating Iraq with troops and weapons, and Kuwait was invaded by Iraq in 1990 - action that prompted the Persian Gulf War.
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