Iran Is Trying to Turn Off Kuwait's Water: The Gulf War Nobody Prepared For Is a Fight Over Desalination Plants
Iran isn't just shooting missiles at Kuwait — according to reporting from France 24, it has spent four straight days targeting the desalination and power plants that produce most of the country's drinking water. That makes this a new kind of escalation in the collapsed US-Iran ceasefire: a deliberate campaign against the machinery that keeps a desert nation alive, aimed at breaking a small country's will rather than its military.
Bottom Line
THE BOTTOM LINE: Iran's campaign against Kuwait is less about destroying targets than about proving it can hold an entire country's drinking water hostage. Whether Kuwait's air defenses hold — and whether its water system keeps running — will determine if 'infrastructure coercion' becomes the defining tactic of this war. Sources currently disagree on how much damage Iran has actually inflicted, so treat early claims from all sides with caution.