Iran helps Houthi militias smuggle weapons of mass destruction

A crew aboard the “Al-Sharwa” ship, which travelled through complex routes via Somalia and Djibouti, have said that Iran has been smuggling weapons to Houthi militias, as covered by Maghrebi Week on August 18th.

Audio and video confessions exposed that Iran has been working with Houthi militias in a bid to smuggle weapons of mass destruction to Yemen.

The crew’s shipment, carrying a reported 750 tons of strategic weapons, was made to look like workshop equipment. The Yemeni National Resistance Forces (NRF), a paramilitary group loyal to the Yemeni government, announced that it had captured the shipment in a statement published on X.

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