Emir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah visited Tehran on 1-2 June, the first official trip to Iran by a sitting Kuwaiti ruler since the 1979 revolution. The emir, bringing with him a senior delegation, spent two days in talks and meetings seen as a symbolic step in the tentative thawing of relations between the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) states and Iran, prompted by the election of President Hassan Rouhani in mid-2013 and the subsequent improvement in relations between Iran and the West.
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