Iranian weapons arrive by sea to Houthis, new report says

Lina Portman4 weeks ago

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The governor of a region in Yemen has “revealed” how Iranian weapons arrive by sea to the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen, according to a report in the United Arab Emirates' Al-Ain. This is important because the Gulf Cooperation Council has discussed the Houthi threat to shipping and relations with the Gulf and Yemen in recent days. The Houthis have also intensified their attacks on shipping.

According to the report, ships enter Houthi-controlled ports in Yemen without inspection. The report also states that there are “further discussions on the flow of Iranian weapons to the port of Hodeidah.” The report states that the government of Yemen, which is the legitimate government of Yemen in relation to the Houthis, who are rebels, recently confirmed and monitored “the movement of Iranian ships directly from the port of Bandar Abbas to the port of Hodeidah, while that the British government has documented the entry of 500 ships over the past eight months, and for the first time since 2016, into Houthi-controlled ports without being subject to the UN inspection mechanism.

The UN was supposed to implement a resolution banning arms smuggling to the Houthis, the report noted. Given the role of the UN in Gaza and Lebanon, where the UN has observed the exponential rise of Hamas and Hezbollah, the role of the UN in Yemen, which monitors the flow of weapons to the Houthis , should not be surprising.

“The governor of Hodeidah of the internationally recognized government, Al-Hassan Taher, confirmed that ships from Iran, carrying various quantities of weapons, had already arrived at the vital port controlled by the Houthi militias, without having been inspected by the mechanism,” notes the Al-Ain report. The governor said the Iranian ships are loaded with weapons and are arriving in Hodeidah in an unsafe manner, violating UN Security Council Resolution 2216.

Armed Houthi supporters ride in the back of a pickup truck during a parade in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and to show support for Houthi strikes on ships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, Sanaa, Yemen, January 29. , 2024. (credit: KHALED ABDULLAH/Reuters)

Accusing Western countries of failing to prevent the flow of weapons to Iranian proxies

According to the report, the official “accuses the United Nations and Western countries influential in the Yemen file of “complicity in facilitating smuggled arms sales.” This is serious because this is another example of Western countries not preventing weapons from entering Iran. -groups supported by groups that destabilize the region. Weapons are flowing to Hezbollah, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, as well as to Syrian and Iraqi militias.

The Al-Ain report highlights that the UN resolution is not being implemented and that this “amounts to joint collusion between the UN and the West, to fuel the coup plotters supported by Iran.” November. The Houthis support Hamas. The United States, United Kingdom and others have sought to respond to the attacks. About twelve percent of world trade passes through the Red Sea. 1,900 kilometers and Iranian-made drones that can fly up to 2,000 kilometers.

The Al-Ain report illustrates further evidence of how Iran is fueling war throughout the region. Iran is capable of exploiting the weakness of the international community and the West to achieve this.