U.S. Navy Intercepts Iranian Vessel Carrying 2,000 AK-47s Bound for Yemen

Breitbart ^ | 01/11/2023 | ETHAN LETKEMAN

[ChicagoConservative27]

The U.S. Navy intercepted an Iranian fishing vessel in the Gulf of Oman carrying 2,000 AK-47 “assault rifles” bound for Yemen on Friday, the U.S. Naval Forces Central Command announced Tuesday.

A team from the USS Chinook, a patrol coastal ship, boarded the Iranian vessel, which was sailing in the Gulf of Oman on a route historically used to traffic weapons from Iran to Yemen’s Houthis, a jihadist organization that the Biden administration delisted as terrorists.

“The USS Chinook was supported by the cyclone-class patrol ship USS Monsoon and the guided-missile destroyer USS The Sullivans,” the U.S. Naval Forces Central Command detailed.

[ChicagoConservative27]

Biden hates guns so throw them in the ocean (S)

[billorites]

"Hunting rifles" not "assault rifles."

Deer season coming up in Yemen.

[Red Badger]

Coming soon to a IRS office near you!................

[gitmo]

I’ll take a couple.

[gitmo]

I’ll take a couple.

[TexasGator]

You hijacked your own thread!

[No name given]

Me too.

[oldguy1776]

An AK will run forever even if it is beat to sh**.

[PGR88]

Silly people - only the USA is allowed to send weapons into others people’s civil wars.

[EEGator]

There’s nothing quite like a Yemeni night chewing on some Yemeni deer jerky, not drinking any booze, as a zephyr howls amongst the stars...

[Liaison]

Hunting season. Heh. “ It’s the second week of jahad camp, and all the guys are here. We play with sheep and shoot the bull but never shoot the deer…”

[MHGinTN]

Depends on where they were made. If its the Bulgarian ones I’ll take three. Bt ammo might be hard to find now.

[Gay State Conservative]

First of all,an AK-47 could,I think,be called an “assault rifle”...as can an M-16. That's because they're both capable of automatic fire. An AR-15,OTOH,is only capable of semi-automatic fire...as are so many other rifles and handguns.

[EnderWiggin1970]

I expect Washington’s lackeys lack any legitimate legal authority for this act of piracy, as they carry water for the Saudi regime.

[libertylover]

The U.S. Navy intercepted an Iranian fishing vessel in the Gulf of Oman carrying 2,000 AK-47 “assault rifles” bound for Yemen

Just wondering, why was it OK for Obama/Biden to sell M-16s to Mexican drug lords but now Biden doesn't want bad guys from Yemen to have AK-47s?

And Biden restarted sending money to Palestinian terrorists that President Trump had halted as well.

[dljordan]

America - World Police.

[Last Dakotan]

Wonder where and when these guns were made.

[robowombat]

I suspect this fishing vessel (dhow?) was within some OMANI proclaimed maritime exclusion zone which may be 30+ miles beyond the three mile limit and the US has been given zonal operation rights by the very pro-US Omanis. Navigation zones in the Gulf are incredibly complicated.

[robowombat]

The Sullivans and the Monsoon are both pretty old ships, unless the Sullivans is one of the newsest destroyer class.

[Rinnwald]

Did they surrender to the Iranian fishing boat?