AP, Kuwait City, 06 August 2008 (excerpts) – Kuwait’s foreign minister says Iran’s renewed threats to close the strategic Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf amount to a “punishment” of its Arab neighbors.
Sheik Mohammed Al Sabah says in comments published Wednesday in Kuwait’s Aljarida daily that the latest threats are “odd”.

Tehran reiterated this week that, if attacked, it could shut the narrow waterway along Iran’s southern coast, through which up to 40 percent of the world’s oil passes. Such a move would send oil prices skyrocketing.