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US Navy claims to seize Iranian arms bound for Yemen

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By SRI NewsDesk Published December 24, 2021
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DUBAI: The US Navy said it seized a large cache of assault rifles and security being smuggled by a fishing boat from Iran probably bound for war- destroyed Yemen.

US Navy command vessels discovered the munitions aboard what the Navy described as a stateless fishing vessel in an operation that began on Monday in the northern rung of the Arabian Sea off Oman and Pakistan. Mariners boarded the vessel and plant Kalashnikov- style rifles and rounds of security, as well as five Yemeni crew members.

It’s just the rearmost interdiction amid the grinding war in Yemen that pits Iran- backed Houthi revolutionists against a Saudi- led military coalition. Western nations and UN experts constantly have indicted Iran of smuggling lawless munitions and technology into Yemen over the times, fueling the civil war and enabling the Houthis to fire dumdums and drones into Saudi Arabia.

Iran denies arming the Houthis despite substantiation to the negative.

AK-47 rifles and ammunition the US Navy claimed to have seized from a fishing boat arranged for inventory aboard the flight deck of guided-missile destroyer USS O’Kane.—AFP

In a surprisingly pointed move, the statement late on Wednesday from the US Navy’s Bahrain- grounded 5th Fleet criticized Iran for transferring the munitions, professing the boat was sailing along a route used to business munitions unlawfully to the Houthis in Yemen.

The direct or circular force, trade, or transfer of munitions to the Houthis violates UN Security Council judgments and US warrants, the statement added.

Iran’s charge to the United Nations didn’t incontinently respond to a request for comment on the interception.

US Navy command vessels transferred the sequestered munitions to the guided-bullet destroyer USS OKane before sinking the fishing vessel because of the hazard it posed to marketable shipping. It said the Yemeni crew would be repatriated.

The U.S. Navy said it seized a large cache of assault rifles and ammunition being smuggled by a fishing ship from Iran likely bound for war-ravaged Yemen

American seizures of arms bound for Yemen’s war, generally Kalashnikov rifles, machine ordnance, and rocket-propelled grenade launchers began in 2016 and have continued intermittently. Yemen is awash with small arms that have been smuggled into inadequately controlled anchorages over times of conflict.

The Navy’s 5th line said it has sequestered some lawless munitions so far this time across the2.5 million- forecourt- afar area its details, including the strategically important Red Sea and the Gulf.

Yemen’s war erupted in 2014 when the Houthis seized the capital of Sanaa and the importance of the country’s north. Saudi Arabia, along with the United Arab Emirates and other countries, launched a bombing crusade months latterly to restore the internationally recognized government and oust the revolutionists.

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