Hamad Al-Mashaan
Kuwait's deputy foreign minister since April 2026 and a career diplomat.
After Iran's embassy disputed a Kuwaiti court's 26 October 2026 death sentences, Hamad Al-Mashaan, Kuwait's deputy foreign minister, protested to Iran's ambassador, citing international law and the UN Charter.
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Hamad Al-Mashaan is a career diplomat with the rank of ambassador. An amiri decree of 26 April 2026 made him Kuwait's deputy foreign minister.
He has delivered Kuwait's protests to Iran's ambassador during the war, and he also handles the ministry's bilateral contacts; in September 2026 he held talks with Iraq's foreign minister.
His latest protest followed the State Security Circuit's verdict in the alleged plot against Interior Minister Fahad Al-Yousef, in which three men, one of them Iranian, were sentenced to death. Iran's embassy said its national had left Kuwait ten years earlier. Kuwait called that interference and summoned Ambassador Mohammad Toutounji.
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