US shows ‘evidence’ Iran supplied arms to Houthis

WASHINGTON: The United States on Thursday presented for the first time pieces of what it said were Iranian weapons supplied to the Iran-aligned Houthi militia in Yemen, describing it as conclusive evidence that Teh­ran was violating UN resolutions.

The arms included charred remnants of what the Pentagon said was an Iranian-made short-range ballistic missile fired from Yemen on Nov 4 at King Khaled International Air­port, outside Riyadh, as well as a drone and an anti-tank weapon recovered in Yemen by the Saudis.

Iran has denied supplying the Houthis with such weaponry and on Thursday described the arms displayed as “fabricated”.

The United States ackno­w­ledged it could not say when the weapons were transfer­red to the Houthis.

Published in Dawn, December 15th, 2017