Kuwait’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned Iran’s alleged attempts to target Turkey and Azerbaijan on March 5 2026 calling the actions a flagrant violation of international law and the United Nations Charter. In a statement the ministry expressed full solidarity with both countries and backed all measures they may take to safeguard their sovereignty security and stability. Saudi Arabia separately issued its strongest condemnation describing the moves as cowardly attempts that pursue an unjustifiable hostile approach according to the Arab Times report.
The Saudi foreign ministry accused Iran of violating international laws norms and principles of good neighborliness through repeated regional actions and warned that such behavior risks pushing the area toward further escalation. The Kuwaiti and Saudi statements emerged on the same day that Iran’s General Staff of the Armed Forces denied launching a drone toward Azerbaijan. Regional media outlets carried both the condemnations and the denial as tensions from the ongoing conflict continued to mount.
Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Defense stated that four Iranian drones attacked the Nakhchivan exclave on March 5 with one neutralized by Azerbaijani forces while the others struck civilian sites including the terminal at Nakhchivan International Airport and an area near a school in Shakarabad village. The strikes injured four people according to multiple accounts from Azerbaijani officials cited by NPR and Reuters. Turkey’s military separately reported intercepting a ballistic missile heading toward its airspace prompting Ankara to condemn attacks on third countries in the region.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei denied that any drones or missiles had been launched from Iranian territory toward Turkey Azerbaijan or Cyprus and suggested some incidents might represent Israeli false-flag operations designed to divide regional states. The Iranian armed forces had previously rejected accusations of targeting oil infrastructure and civilian locations during the conflict. These denials came one day after the reported strikes as Tehran focused on retaliatory actions elsewhere.
The March 5 incidents form part of the 2026 Iran war that began in late February with Israeli and U.S. strikes inside Iran according to a Wikipedia compilation of attacks during the conflict drawn from official statements. Azerbaijan vowed retaliation after the drone strikes with President Ilham Aliyev instructing armed forces to prepare appropriate measures his office stated. Turkey’s foreign ministry called for an immediate end to strikes that risk spreading the war further Iran International reported.
A joint statement released on March 1 by the United States Bahrain Jordan Kuwait Qatar Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates had already condemned Iran’s indiscriminate missile and drone attacks across the region including on several Gulf states. The U.S. State Department release said those earlier strikes breached international laws and UN Security Council Resolution 2817. The fresh condemnations from Kuwait and Saudi Arabia on March 5 extended that criticism to the alleged operations against Turkey and Azerbaijan.
Iranian officials promised a full investigation into the Nakhchivan events while both sides initially signaled preference for a diplomatic path to avoid additional escalation a position noted in contemporaneous diplomatic readouts. The broader conflict has included reported Iranian activity against targets in multiple countries with the Nakhchivan strikes marking one of the first direct alleged hits on Azerbaijani soil.
