DSR 11C the Kuwaiti border post with Iraq and a minor gas gathering centre and is assumed to have inspired, if not actually directed, the December 1983 bombings. Kuwait is only likely to come under direct military threat from Iran if Iran succeeded in occupying southern Iraq, but the threat from subversion continues. The Iran/Iraq war has forced Kuwait to move closer to Iraq but in the مام longer term Iraq remains a threat. There is a dormantborder dispute and historically the Iraqis have been unrestrained in their interventions within Kuwait, whether directly or by Palestinian proxy. Kuwait is the only Gulf State to have resident diplomatic missions from the Eastern Bloc: all these countries work hard to establish a base in Kuwait for extending their information on the rest of the Gulf. Kuwait is not always aware of the communist countrys' ulterior motives and continues to believe she can handle them. SECTION VII (a) Threats Iranian inspired subversion; involuntary involvement ofKuwait in the Gulf war possibly resuling in further hitand run Iranian attacks; domestic instability caused by Sunni/Shi'a divisions and the growth of Islamic fundamentalism or by Middle East political issues, egPalestinauns resentful of the discrimination against themou moined by developments on baby Israel
