French Forces Seize Iranian-Supplied Weapons Bound for Yemen

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France steps up military role in combating weapons smuggling

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AK-47 assault rifles seized from a vessel transiting along a maritime route from Iran to Yemen from an operation earlier in January.

Elite French special forces seized a boatload of Iranian-supplied weapons and ammunition bound for militants in Yemen as part of a deepening effort to contain Tehran, according to officials familiar with the operation.

On Jan. 15, the officials said, a French warship stopped a suspected smuggling ship off the Yemeni coast where the specially trained French team boarded the boat. On board, the officials said, the French military discovered more than 3,000 assault rifles, a half million rounds of ammunition and 20 antitank guided missiles.

The operation, which was coordinated with the U.S. military, is the outgrowth of a more proactive French role in challenging weapons smuggling in the Middle East.

The naval operation was part of an international effort to enforce a United Nations arms embargo on weapons going to Yemen’s Houthis, a rebel group that controls swaths of the country, including the capital, San’a. Last year, the U.N. expanded the embargo’s scope in an effort to choke off the weapons flow.

Until recently, the U.S. military had taken the lead in hunting down weapons smugglers ferrying supplies to the Houthis. Now, France and the U.K. are playing a greater role.

Tensions have risen between Iran and European powers in recent months, as talks stall over the revival of an international deal constraining Tehran’s nuclear program, while the Islamic Republic has detained a rising number of European citizens.

Commander Tim Hawkins, a spokesman for the U.S. Fifth Fleet, the Navy’s regional command center in Bahrain, said the American military helped seize weapons on Jan. 15 in the Gulf of Oman, but declined to go into details.

“Over the past two months alone, we and our partners have prevented more than 5,000 weapons and 1.6 million rounds of ammunition from reaching Yemen,” he said. The French military declined Wednesday to comment on the operation.

The French operation is the latest in a series of weapons seizures that suggest that Iran continues to supply its Houthi allies in Yemen with firepower, despite an unofficial nine-month-old cease-fire that has created more room for political talks.

The U.S. and its allies have accused Tehran of supplying Houthi forces with missiles, drones and other weapons they have used to carry out hundreds of attacks targeting Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Yemeni forces trying to uproot the Iran-backed fighters. Tehran provides open political support for the Houthi forces, but has denied that it provides them with weapons in violation of U.N. resolutions.

On Wednesday, the U.S. military said Yemeni forces had seized 100 drone engines bound for Houthi militants.

The war in Yemen has stretched on for more than eight years. Houthi fighters seized the country’s capital in September 2014. Six months later, Saudi Arabia and a small coalition of allies launched a military campaign meant to force the Houthis from power.

But the Saudi-led campaign failed to quickly end Houthi control. Instead, the two sides have been ensnared in a destabilizing war that triggered what the U.N. called the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Thousands of civilians have been killed in the conflict. Nearly three-quarters of the country’s population rely on humanitarian aid to survive.

In early January, the U.S. Navy said it had seized more than 2,000 assault rifles on a ship in the Gulf of Oman. U.S. officials said then that the weapons were heading to Houthi forces in Yemen.

“The illegal flow of weapons from Iran through international waterways has a destabilizing effect on the region,” Gen. Michael Kurilla, head of U.S. Central Command, said at the time.

Last July, for the first time, the U.K. said that the Royal Navy had seized surface-to-air missiles and cruise-missile engines from a boat sailing off the southern coast of Iran.

Last December, the U.S. Navy said it had seized 1,400 AK-47 rifles and more than 226,000 rounds of ammunition from a fishing vessel in the north Arabian Sea. The U.S. military said the vessel came from Iran. In a separate operation that same month, the U.S. Navy said it had seized more than 1.1 million rounds of ammunition from a fishing trawler operating between Iran and Yemen.


French Forces Seize Iranian-Supplied Weapons Bound for Yemen - WSJ
 
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wait THREE QTRS of the YEMEN POPULATION need HUMANITARIAN aid..

GATDAAYAM...its THAT bad over there???
Been like that.. a Yemen store owner i was cool with showed me a video of his homeland.. nigs didn’t have any school or jobs for 2+ yrs cause of war..had bullet holes at his family house, next door neighbor house was bombed.. lack of food, lack of running water..this was like 2015.. he was like yeah American tv don’t show all the travesty around the world.. he was like people over here be mad about dumb things like how fast internet might be slowing down..meanwhile people in places are lucky to have clean drinking water, daily baths, and food..he was like this why they be working long hours in corner stores to send money back to their families that desperately need it.. made me look at things differently.. that’s why when we had those Covid shutdowns and nigs acting all miserable and stressed out I was like other people would look at us like you nigs have no idea what real struggle is
 
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France steps up military role in combating weapons smuggling

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AK-47 assault rifles seized from a vessel transiting along a maritime route from Iran to Yemen from an operation earlier in January.

Elite French special forces seized a boatload of Iranian-supplied weapons and ammunition bound for militants in Yemen as part of a deepening effort to contain Tehran, according to officials familiar with the operation.

On Jan. 15, the officials said, a French warship stopped a suspected smuggling ship off the Yemeni coast where the specially trained French team boarded the boat. On board, the officials said, the French military discovered more than 3,000 assault rifles, a half million rounds of ammunition and 20 antitank guided missiles.

The operation, which was coordinated with the U.S. military, is the outgrowth of a more proactive French role in challenging weapons smuggling in the Middle East.

The naval operation was part of an international effort to enforce a United Nations arms embargo on weapons going to Yemen’s Houthis, a rebel group that controls swaths of the country, including the capital, San’a. Last year, the U.N. expanded the embargo’s scope in an effort to choke off the weapons flow.

Until recently, the U.S. military had taken the lead in hunting down weapons smugglers ferrying supplies to the Houthis. Now, France and the U.K. are playing a greater role.

Tensions have risen between Iran and European powers in recent months, as talks stall over the revival of an international deal constraining Tehran’s nuclear program, while the Islamic Republic has detained a rising number of European citizens.

Commander Tim Hawkins, a spokesman for the U.S. Fifth Fleet, the Navy’s regional command center in Bahrain, said the American military helped seize weapons on Jan. 15 in the Gulf of Oman, but declined to go into details.

“Over the past two months alone, we and our partners have prevented more than 5,000 weapons and 1.6 million rounds of ammunition from reaching Yemen,” he said. The French military declined Wednesday to comment on the operation.

The French operation is the latest in a series of weapons seizures that suggest that Iran continues to supply its Houthi allies in Yemen with firepower, despite an unofficial nine-month-old cease-fire that has created more room for political talks.

The U.S. and its allies have accused Tehran of supplying Houthi forces with missiles, drones and other weapons they have used to carry out hundreds of attacks targeting Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Yemeni forces trying to uproot the Iran-backed fighters. Tehran provides open political support for the Houthi forces, but has denied that it provides them with weapons in violation of U.N. resolutions.

On Wednesday, the U.S. military said Yemeni forces had seized 100 drone engines bound for Houthi militants.

The war in Yemen has stretched on for more than eight years. Houthi fighters seized the country’s capital in September 2014. Six months later, Saudi Arabia and a small coalition of allies launched a military campaign meant to force the Houthis from power.

But the Saudi-led campaign failed to quickly end Houthi control. Instead, the two sides have been ensnared in a destabilizing war that triggered what the U.N. called the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Thousands of civilians have been killed in the conflict. Nearly three-quarters of the country’s population rely on humanitarian aid to survive.

In early January, the U.S. Navy said it had seized more than 2,000 assault rifles on a ship in the Gulf of Oman. U.S. officials said then that the weapons were heading to Houthi forces in Yemen.

“The illegal flow of weapons from Iran through international waterways has a destabilizing effect on the region,” Gen. Michael Kurilla, head of U.S. Central Command, said at the time.

Last July, for the first time, the U.K. said that the Royal Navy had seized surface-to-air missiles and cruise-missile engines from a boat sailing off the southern coast of Iran.

Last December, the U.S. Navy said it had seized 1,400 AK-47 rifles and more than 226,000 rounds of ammunition from a fishing vessel in the north Arabian Sea. The U.S. military said the vessel came from Iran. In a separate operation that same month, the U.S. Navy said it had seized more than 1.1 million rounds of ammunition from a fishing trawler operating between Iran and Yemen.


French Forces Seize Iranian-Supplied Weapons Bound for Yemen - WSJ
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@Soul On Ice and @lightbright …..what is it with you two?
She has a hard constant lust for my sack..... she logs off man-Googling me..... and as you can see..... she wakes up doing the same....... I log on and post threads..... and she logs on to, well you see what she logs on for.... does it to @mcguyver too
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wait THREE QTRS of the YEMEN POPULATION need HUMANITARIAN aid..

GATDAAYAM...its THAT bad over there???
Yemen is fucked up, I started a thread about that place when the disagreement started in Ukraine…. That thread had little traffic outside of two folks…
It was amazing that some of our well informed members didn’t speak in there but had all the answers for Ukraine and Russia. I asked why but those questions still haven’t been answered. :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao:
 
She has a hard constant lust for my sack..... she logs off man-Googling me..... and as you can see..... she wakes up doing the same....... I log on and post threads..... and she logs on to, well you see what she logs on for.... does it to @mcguyver too
sidebar: she wakes up and stares at her Sam Smith posters.... then just explodes... ya just hate to see it



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Tagging in your boifriend huh?
Smh
 
Dude.... it's the hellhole of hellholes over there... :smh: :smh: :smh:


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Them Arab dudes told me there was some kind of cease fire truce...

No wonder homie kept bragging about how many guns and AK's they had,

they NEED them shits over there..

Must be a lot of Oil/resources in that country....Yemen is so close to Africa it might as well be Africa...
 
Yemen is fucked up, I started a thread about that place when the disagreement started in Ukraine…. That thread had little traffic outside of two folks…
It was amazing that some of our well informed members didn’t speak in there but had all the answers for Ukraine and Russia. I asked why but those questions still haven’t been answered. :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao:

Folks dont really speak on Issue from the so called Middle east, western mass media has like

a blackout on news from that area, unless you go digging for it...

Dude from the A rab smoke shops be Hating on the Saudi's thats for damn sure....

I also didnt realize how many variations of Arabic there are....lots of beef

between various Sects.

Is it still mostly the Sunni vs the Shiites??
 
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No Google was needed..... Stephen Colbert aired it last night.... he outed you..... WeHo faggot
sidebar: you've made 6 posts today...... five were with my sack in your mouth..... you woke up thirsty with your FIRST post
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What's the fight in Yemen about?

Also my question.
Biden campaigned to stop the Yemen war by not supplying the Saudis.
But whether it's Clinton/Bush/Trump and now Biden.

Once a President has a sit down with the Saudis.
Plans change.

 
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