France seizes Iran assault rifles, missiles heading to Yemen

[OneCrazyDiamond]

Source: Associated Press

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — French naval forces in January seized thousands of assault rifles, machine guns and anti-tank missiles in the Gulf of Oman coming from Iran and heading to Yemen’s Houthi rebels, officials said Thursday.

While Iran denied being involved, images of the weapons released by the U.S. military’s Central Command showed them to be similar to others captured by American forces in other shipments tied to Tehran.

The announcement comes as Iran faces increasing Western pressure over its shipment of drones to arm Russia during its war on Ukraine, as well as for its violent monthslong crackdown targeting protesters.

Regional tensions also have heightened after a suspected Israeli drone attack on a military workshop in the central Iranian city of Isfahan on Saturday. Previous cycles of violence since the collapse of Iran’s nuclear deal with world powers have seen the Islamic Republic launch retaliatory attacks at sea.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-iran-politics-united-states-government-middle-east-65b99a04a99d2504fd1123fc8e4300cc

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That's a lot of weapons. It's hard to gauge something lost, but I wonder what levers we would have if we hadn't blown up the nuclear deal.

[FailureToCommunicate]

1. And by "we" you mean...?

TFG

[OneCrazyDiamond]

2. I have a few name for him.

Agent Orange comes to mind at the moment....I would probably include John Bolton high on this too.

[FailureToCommunicate]

3. We wouldn't have thought TFG was smart enough to screw up our world, but, he had...

"people for that."

[AllaN01Bear]

4. any chance of these going to ukr?

[EX500rider]

5. I doubt we'd have much leverage on something Iran claims they aren't doing

[republianmushroom]

6. like it

[LiberalLovinLug]

7. Well that should help the Saudis kill a few more families in Yemen.

How about stopping the ones that go to defending a country from attack like Russian orders of missiles meant for Ukraine? Instead of seizing weapons for other underdogs fighting an authoritarian State attack like SA against Yemen.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

8. Indeed. American supplied weapons shipped to Saudis and then to Yemen...why aren't

those weapons a bad thing, and seized also?

Western hypocrisy and complicity is immense on Yemen.

Really, America is helping King Bonesaw kill murder more humans?

[EX500rider]

9. Actually Saudi is helping the elected govt of Yemen fight off Iranian funded & directed rebels

And Saudi stays involved because the "rebels" have fired hundreds of missiles over the border at Saudi cities.

Pretty tricky rebels groups building ballistic missiles, wonder how they manage that?

The eight-year-old conflict in Yemen is between the internationally recognized government, which is backed by a Saudi-led military coalition, and Houthi rebels supported by Iran.

Houthis have fired 430 missiles, 851 drones at Saudi Arabia since 2015.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/houthis-have-fired-430-missiles-851-drones-saudi-arabia-since-2015-saudi-led-2021-12-26/