Iran strikes Kuwait power and water desalination plant — Indian worker killed, building destroyed

Kuwait's Ministry of Electricity, Water and Renewable Energy announced that a service building at one of its power and water desalination plants was struck, killing an Indian national worker and causing extensive material damage. Technical and emergency response teams were deployed immediately. The attack extended Iran's pattern of striking Kuwait across three consecutive conflict days. In a significant counter-narrative development, Iran's military operational command Khatam Al-Anbiya subsequently issued a statement claiming Israel — not Iran — was responsible for the desalination plant attack, describing it as 'brutal aggression by the Israeli regime against Kuwait's desalination plant, carried out in recent hours under the pretext of accusing the Islamic Republic of Iran.' Iran offered no evidence for this claim. Kuwait and US officials have attributed the attack to Iran consistent with the broader pattern of Iranian strikes on Kuwaiti infrastructure.