Several Kuwaiti supermarket chains have begun boycotting products from Iran for its support of the Syrian regime, while activists staged a demonstration against the involvement of the Lebanese Hezbollah movement in the conflict.
At least nine co-operative consumer societies out of 50 in Kuwait published announcements in the local media yesterday saying they had taken Iranian products off their shelves in protest at Tehran’s backing of President Bashar al-Assad.
Co-operative societies control a majority of the retail consumer market in Kuwait.
One of the announcements said that the next step in the campaign would be to dismiss Iranian labourers working at the societies and cancel their residency permits.
Meanwhile, dozens of activists demonstrated outside the Lebanese embassy late Tuesday in protest at the military intervention of Hezbollah fighters on the side of Syrian regime forces against rebels. Page 15