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Yemeni forces bust Iranian weapons shipment bound for Houthis, including chemical weapons – report

The Jerusalem Post reports: “The Yemeni National Resistance, the main military faction fighting against the Houthis, seized 750 tons of weapons smuggled to the terror group by Iran, including chemical weapons, Sky News Arabia reported on Monday. 

The operation revealed that both Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Hezbollah were involved in the weapons smuggling, using shipping routes from Africa and Asia towards the Houthi-controlled territory in Yemen.

The report added that, along with conventional weapons, chemical weapons were also smuggled to the Houthis during the operation, citing interrogations of the crew. 

The main shipment, which came through Djibouti, left with a commercial cover and camouflaged itself as ‘generators, electrical transformers, air pumps, and hydraulic columns.’

There were already 12 similar operations that involved sending these types of weapons to the Houthis…”

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