Since the
United Nations-backed ceasefire ended in October of last year, Iran has
increased its weaponry smuggling to the Houthi group, according to Muammar
Al-Eryani, Yemen's minister of information, culture, and tourism.
The
minister cited a recent operation in which US and French forces worked together
to stop an Iranian shipment of weapons that was travelling through the Gulf of
Oman to Yemen.
According
to prior reports, the ship was en route to the Houthi militia with 3,000
assault rifles, 20 anti-tank missiles, and over 500,000 rounds of ammo.
The US
said in a statement that the operation was one of four significant
interdictions over the previous two months that stopped the entry of more than
5,000 weapons and 1.6 million rounds of ammunition into Yemen.
Al-Eryani
argued that Iran's role in undermining efforts by the international community
to put an end to the war in Yemen and bring about peace has been made clear by
the Yemeni security forces' seizure of 100 drone engines that were on their way
to the Houthis via Shahn land port. This was the fifth such violation in as
many months.
The
militia in Iran has been fully empowered, he continued, and it "doesn't
have power to decide on war and peace."
Al-Eryani
charged that the Iranian government was violating international law in order to
"export its own crises" and "cover up atrocities against the
Iranian people."
He
claimed that the dictatorship intended to "use its sectarian militias to
foment unrest, terrorism, disrupt security and stability, and jeopardise energy
security and global shipping lanes."
The
minister urged the UN and members of the international community to combat
Iran's illicit activities that jeopardise stability on a global and regional
scale.
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