❗️Kuwait sentences three to death over so-called 'Iran-linked plot' to assassinate interior minister Kuwait’s State Security Circuit issued death sentences today against prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Hussein Abdullah al-Matouq and two others on controversial charges of espionage and plotting to assassinate First Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Fahad al-Yousef al-Sabah. According to KUNA, the anti-terror court handed capital punishment to Matouq—the secretary-general of the National Islamic Alliance—along with Hassan Abdulhadi Hajieh and Iranian national Abdulreza Haidar Dehqani, while sentencing eight co-defendants to five-year prison terms. The capital rulings are part of an escalating political campaign targeting Kuwait's Shia minority and domestic political dissidents under the guise of national security. Hajieh was previously pardoned by royal decree in a similar security case before being re-arrested by state security forces, reflecting the government's routine reliance on recycled espionage charges to intimidate community leaders and suppress independent political organizing. The sentences come amid broader efforts by Gulf monarchies to align domestic security policies with western strategic priorities and criminalize ties to regional Resistance movements. Legal defense representatives confirmed that the State Security Circuit's rulings will be appealed, emphasizing that the prosecution relied on coerced testimonies and political framing to manufacture an alleged conspiracy against state authorities.