Intel: Saudi-led coalition says it intercepted Iranian weapons bound for Yemen
The Saudi-led coalition intercepted a boat carrying light weapons of Iranian origin bound for war-wracked Yemen, Saudi and US officials said today.
The Saudi-led coalition intercepted a boat carrying light weapons of Iranian origin bound for war-wracked Yemen, Saudi and US officials said today amid a US push in the United Nations Security Council toward renewing an international arms embargo on Tehran.
What appeared to be recoilless, anti-material, and Kalashnikov-style rifles, as well as thermal scopes and documents written in Farsi, were reportedly among the cargo of a dhow seized by Arab coalition forces off western Yemen’s port city of Mocha in April, according to images and statements released by coalition officials.
Saudi Arabia’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel al-Jubeir unveiled the results of the seizure at a press conference today in Riyadh alongside US Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook.
Al-Arabiya, which broadcast the press conference, cited a Saudi-led coalition official as saying the weapons were captured on April 17.
