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The main route linking Bahrain and Saudi Arabia was closed, while Kuwait ordered citizens nationwide to stay near protected areas from midnight till 6 a.m.<\/p>\n
The main route linking Bahrain and Saudi Arabia was closed on Tuesday due to Iranian threats<\/a> of possible retaliation<\/a> for the attack on their bridges and railway infrastructure, the Associated Press<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n Alongside this decision, Kuwait’s Interior Ministry urged its citizens to stay indoors and near a protected area from Tuesday midnight till Wednesday as a preemptive measure against possible widespread Iranian attacks.<\/p>\n “The Ministry of Interior urges citizens and residents to remain in their homes and avoid going out, except in cases of utmost necessity, from 12:00 midnight on Tuesday, April 7, until 6:00 a.m. on Wednesday, April 8, as a precautionary measure,” read the statement.<\/p>\n The measure aims to “safeguard everyone’s safety, strengthening the level of prevention, and enabling security authorities to perform their duties with high efficiency.”<\/p>\n The preventive decision by Kuwait and Bahrain comes as Iranian-linked groups shared a list of bridges and transport infrastructure that would be targeted as a response to the latest IDF attack on Iran’s railways<\/a>.<\/p>\nIran threatens bridges in the region after IDF infrastructure attack<\/h3>\n