Yemen’s Information Minister Muammar al-Eryani has accused Iran of increasing its arms shipments to the Huthi insurgency that has been embroiled with the Yemeni Army and the Saudi-led alliance since 2014 in a conflict that has dragged the country into humanitarian catastrophe.
In particular, the minister has lamented that Iran has taken advantage of the truce declared in Yemen between April and October last year to accelerate these shipments to the insurgency, which has in the Islamic republic its great ally against the Yemeni government and the alliance.
To the latest seizures made by the US Navy in the Gulf of Oman, Al Eryani has indicated that the Yemeni security forces have recently seized a hundred drone engines provided by Iran in the fifth operation of this nature carried out in the last two months, according to comments picked up by Arab News.
It should be recalled that the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) announced Wednesday the seizure of an Iranian arms shipment in the Gulf of Oman that was destined for Yemen, in which «more than 3,000 assault rifles, 578,000 rounds of ammunition and 23 advanced anti-tank guided missiles» were recovered. In recent months the Navy has prevented the passage of more than 5,000 weapons and 1.6 million rounds of ammunition to Yemen.
«All this confirms that Iran is empowering a militia that has nothing to decide about war and peace,» the minister assured, before accusing Tehran of «exporting its internal crises to cover up the atrocities it is committing against its own people,» referring to the protests that have been shaking Iran for months following the death of young Mahsa Amini.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
