DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Kuwait accused Iran on Tuesday of sending an armed paramilitary Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps team to launch a failed attack earlier this month on an island in the Middle East nation home to a China-funded port project.

Iran didn’t immediately acknowledge the allegation by Kuwait, which came under repeated attack by Iran in the war, and even during the shaky ceasefire still holding in the region. However, the allegation and ongoing attacks throughout the region have threatened to tip the region back into open warfare.

Negotiations between the US and Iran appear at a standstill for the moment, also raising the risk of the conflict breaking out again.

Kuwait said that a team of six armed members of the Guard tried to infiltrate Bubiyan Island in the northwest corner of the Persian Gulf near Iraq and Iran on May 1.

It accused the team of planning to carry out “hostile acts,” without elaborating.

Kuwait said that it detained four of the men, while two escaped when its forces disrupted their infiltration of the island. Kuwait said one of its security officials had been........

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