Kuwait will deport three Iranian diplomats who, a court ruled, were involved with a spy network, Bloomberg reported with reference to Al-Qabas, citing Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed Al-Sabah.
The court, which sentenced two Iranians and a Kuwaiti to death for alleged involvement with the spy network, "proved this cell's direct links to Iran, and precisely Iran's Revolutionary Guard," Al-Qabas cited Sheikh Mohammed as saying.
Earlier Kuwait has recalled its ambassador from Tehran a day after a court condemned to death three people convicted of spying for Iran, Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Sabah was quoted as saying Wednesday, AFP reported.
In the remarks published by Al-Watan newspaper on its website, the minister said that the oil-rich emirate would expel any Iranian diplomat proved to have links with the spy ring.
On March 28, Kuwait's criminal court condemned to death two Iranians and a Kuwaiti for passing key military information to Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards.
A Syrian and a stateless Arab were handed life terms in the espionage trial, while an Iranian man and the only woman defendant -- daughter of one of the two Iranians on death row -- were acquitted.
The three men condemned to death and the Syrian all were serving in the Kuwaiti army at the time of their arrest in May 2010, while the stateless Arab was an ex-soldier.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast has decisively refuted the presence of an Iranian spy network in Kuwait. "The media reports are false," Mehmanparast told Trend.