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UN Report: Iran Navy Port Emerges as Key to Weapons Smuggling to Yemen


(Wall Street Journal) Benoit Faucon - Thousands of rocket launchers, machine guns, sniper rifles and other weapons seized in the Arabian Sea by the U.S. Navy in recent months originated from the Iranian port of Jask on the Sea of Oman, according to a confidential UN report that provides detailed evidence that Tehran is exporting arms to Yemen and elsewhere. Iran has long denied providing the Houthis in Yemen with arms. Deliveries of weapons to the Houthis is a violation of a UN arms embargo imposed on the group since 2015.
2022-01-10 00:00:00
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