Saturday, 9 February 2013

INQUIRER.net: Yemen minister says weapons came from Iran

INQUIRER.net
Philippine News for Filipinos
Yemen minister says weapons came from Iran
Feb 10th 2013, 00:50

SANAA, Yemen— Yemen's interior minister said Saturday that his country was disappointed to find that a large and diverse cache of weapons seized on a ship last month had been exported from Iran, a finding Washington said underscores Tehran's ongoing evasion of U.N. resolutions.   Speaking in a press conference in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa, Interior Minister Abdel-Qader Kahtan said a Yemeni investigation found that the weapons were destined for armed insurgents. He did not elaborate, saying only that an investigation is ongoing.   He said he had hoped Iran would not "export weapons to Yemen". It was the first acknowledgement by a Yemeni official on the record...

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