It's possible that I may need to be in Kuwait on business on the 7th July. My employer would expect me to fly out on the previous day, which is likely to be Ashura. So that's not happening.
I have two options.
I could offer to fly out a day or so earlier, which would then allow me to do majalis and aamal in Kuwait (but an Urdu speaking crowd would be easier). Do these exist?
An alternative (which my wife is scared of) is me flying out to Najaf a few days earlier, spending Ashura in Karbala and after Maghreb in Najaf speeding down to the Safwan border crossing, where I'd arrive around midnight. Does that sound doable? I have entered and departed Iraq (2012) at Safwan and it was ok.