{"id":1145801,"date":"2021-12-23T09:49:23","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T14:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1145801"},"modified":"2021-12-23T09:49:28","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T14:49:28","slug":"pictures-u-s-navy-seizes-arms-from-iran-likely-bound-for-yemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pictures-u-s-navy-seizes-arms-from-iran-likely-bound-for-yemen\/","title":{"rendered":"Pictures: U.S. Navy Seizes Arms from Iran Likely Bound for Yemen"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpictures-u-s-navy-seizes-arms-from-iran-likely-bound-for-yemen%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1145801&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) \u2014 The U.S. Navy said it seized a large cache of assault rifles and ammunition being smuggled by a fishing ship from Iran likely bound for war-ravaged Yemen.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Navy patrol ships discovered the weapons aboard what the Navy described as a stateless fishing vessel in an operation that began on Monday in the northern reaches of the Arabian Sea off Oman and Pakistan. Sailors boarded the vessel and found 1,400 Kalashnikov-style rifles and 226,600 rounds of ammunition, as well five Yemeni crew members.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>It\u2019s just the latest interdiction amid the grinding war in Yemen that pits Iran-backed Houthi rebels against a Saudi-led military coalition. Western nations and U.N. experts repeatedly have accused Iran of smuggling illicit weapons and technology into Yemen over the years, fueling the civil war and enabling the Houthis to fire missiles and drones into neighboring Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>Iran denies arming the Houthis despite evidence to the contrary.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19236634\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/1000-1-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19236634\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/1000-1-1.jpeg\" alt=\"In this Dec. 20, 2021, photo released by the U.S. Navy, service members from patrol coastal ship USS Typhoon, inventory an illicit shipment of weapons while aboard a stateless fishing vessel transiting international waters in the North Arabian Sea. The U.S. Navy seized a large cache of assault rifles and ammunition being smuggled by a fishing ship from Iran likely bound for war-ravaged Yemen, it said late Wednesday. (U.S. Navy via AP)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"683\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>In this Dec. 20, 2021, photo released by the U.S. Navy, service members from patrol coastal ship USS <\/em>Typhoon<em>, inventory an illicit shipment of weapons while aboard a stateless fishing vessel transiting international waters in the North Arabian Sea. (U.S. Navy via AP)<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>In an unusually pointed move, the statement late Wednesday from the Navy\u2019s Bahrain-based 5th Fleet blamed Iran for sending the weapons, saying the boat was sailing along a route \u201chistorically used to traffic weapons unlawfully to the Houthis in Yemen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe direct or indirect supply, sale or transfer of weapons to the Houthis violates U.N. Security Council Resolutions and U.S. sanctions,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s mission to the United Nations did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the interception.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Navy patrol ships transferred the confiscated weapons to the guided-missile destroyer USS O\u2019Kane before sinking the fishing vessel because of the \u201chazard\u201d it posed to commercial shipping. It said the Yemeni crew would be repatriated.<\/p>\n<p>American seizures of arms bound for Yemen\u2019s war, typically Kalashnikov rifles, machine guns and rocket-propelled grenade launchers, began in 2016 and have continued intermittently. Yemen is awash with small arms that have been smuggled into poorly controlled ports over years of conflict.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_19236650\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/1000-2-2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19236650 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/1000-2-2.jpeg\" alt=\"In this Dec. 20, 2021, photo released by the U.S. Navy, service members from patrol coastal ship USS Typhoon, inventory an illicit shipment of weapons while aboard a stateless fishing vessel transiting international waters in the North Arabian Sea. The U.S. Navy seized a large cache of assault rifles and ammunition being smuggled by a fishing ship from Iran likely bound for war-ravaged Yemen, it said late Wednesday. (U.S. Navy via AP)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"610\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>The U.S. Navy seized a large cache of assault rifles and ammunition being smuggled by a fishing ship from Iran likely bound for war-ravaged Yemen, it said late Wednesday. (U.S. Navy via AP)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_19236658\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/1000-3-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19236658 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/1000-3-1.jpeg\" alt=\"In this Dec. 21, 2021, photo released by the U.S. Navy, Illicit weapons seized from a stateless fishing vessel in the North Arabian Sea are arranged for inventory aboard guided-missile destroyer USS O&#039;Kane&#039;s (DDG 77) flight deck. The U.S. Navy seized a large cache of assault rifles and ammunition being smuggled by a fishing ship from Iran likely bound for war-ravaged Yemen, it said late Wednesday, Dec. 22. (Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Elisha Smith\/U.S. Navy via AP)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"687\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Illicit weapons seized from a stateless fishing vessel in the North Arabian Sea are arranged for inventory aboard guided-missile destroyer USS O\u2019Kane\u2019s (DDG 77) flight deck. (Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Elisha Smith\/U.S. Navy via AP)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Navy\u2019s 5th fleet said it has confiscated some 8,700 illicit weapons so far this year across the 2.5 million-square-mile area it patrols, including the strategically important Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.<\/p>\n<p>Yemen\u2019s war erupted in 2014, when the Houthis seized the capital of Sanaa and much of the country\u2019s north. Saudi Arabia, along with the United Arab Emirates and other countries, launched a bombing campaign months later to restore the internationally recognized government and oust the rebels.<\/p>\n<p>The war has killed some 130,000 people and spawned the world\u2019s worst humanitarian disaster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) \u2014 The U.S. Navy said it seized a large cache of assault rifles and ammunition being smuggled by a fishing ship from Iran likely bound &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1145801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1145801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1145801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1145801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1145801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}