Arms Seized Off Coast of Yemen Appear to Have Been Made in Iran

New York Times ^ | January 10, 2017 | By C. J. CHIVERS and ERIC SCHMITT

[Brad from Tennessee]

Photographs recently released by the Australian government show that light anti-armor weapons seized from a smuggling vessel near Yemen’s coast appear to have been manufactured in Iran, further suggesting that Tehran has had a hand in a high-seas gunrunning operation to the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.

The weapons, a selection of at least nine rocket-propelled grenade launchers, were among thousands of weapons seized by an Australian warship, the Darwin, in February from an Iranian dhow that was sailing under the name Samer. The photographs of the weapons, a sample of the much larger quantity of arms, were obtained by the Small Arms Survey, a Geneva-based international research center, after a long open-records dispute with the Australian military.

Iran has been repeatedly accused of providing arms helping to fuel one side of the war in Yemen, in which rebels from the country’s north, known as the Houthis, ousted the government from the capital, Sana, in 2014. The United States and other Western governments have provided vast quantities of weapons, and other forms of military support, to the embattled government and its allies in a coalition led by Saudi Arabia, contributing to violence that the United Nations said last year had caused more than 10,000 civilian casualties. . .

[Blood of Tyrants]

Paid for by Obama’s deal with Iran.

[HLPhat]

[A Tally of Iran Sanctions Relief Includes More Than $10 Billion in Cash, Gold]
http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-tally-of-iran-sanctions-relief-includes-more-than-10-billion-in-cash-gold-1483112751

Gosh. I wonder what they’ll spend that on.

[WENDLE]

News? you’re kidding. Shiites are fighting Sunni bastard in Yemen and we are shocked that Iran is supplying arms to their people. ? Yikes.

[Puppage]

Paid for by Obama’s deal with Iran.

You read my mind.

[texas booster]

...to the embattled government and its allies in a coalition led by Saudi Arabia, contributing to violence that the United Nations said last year had caused more than 10,000 civilian casualties. . .

What kind of statement is this, suggesting that Western opposition to Iranian caused civil war in yemen, based on religious lines ...

is the causation of 10,000 “civilian” casualties?

Just so much propaganda from the UN.

[blam]

"Paid for by Obama’s deal with Iran."

Valerie Jarrett said it would be okay for Iran to send the weapons.