Thousands of AK-47 assault rifles sit on the flight deck of guided-missile destroyer USS The Sullivans (DDG 68) during an inventory process, Jan. 7. U.S. naval forces seized 2,116 AK-47 assault rifles from a fishing vessel transiting along a maritime route from Iran to Yemen. Photo By: U.S. Navy
The United States is considering transferring thousands of seized Iranian weapons and more than a million rounds of ammunition which were originally intended for the Houthi (Ansar Allah) in Yemen, The Wall Street Journal reported on February 14, citing American and European officials.
According to the report, Ukraine could get more than 5,000 assault rifles, 1.6 million rounds of small arms ammunition, a small number of anti-tank guided missiles, and more than 7,000 proximity fuses which were recently seized by the U.S. and France near the Yemeni coast from smugglers suspected of working for Iran.
The report noted that the main challenge for the Biden administration is finding a legal justification for transferring the weapons to Ukraine as the United Nations arms embargo, which they were seized under, requires the U.S. and France to destroy, store, or dispose of them.
Biden administration lawyers are reportedly exploring whether there is any legal loophole that would permit the transfer of the seized weapons.
“It’s a message to take weapons meant to arm Iran’s proxies and flip them to achieve our priorities in Ukraine, where Iran is providing arms to Russia,” WSJ quoted one American official as saying.
The U.S. may have already supplied some seized Iranian weapons to Ukraine. Iranian weapons, including heavy mortars, were spotted with Kiev forces just a few months after the start of the Russian special military operation in the country. Back then, several reports said that the weapons were originally seized by the U.S. or one of its allies somewhere in the Middle East.
Iran has been reportedly supplying the Houthis with all sorts of weapons, including suicide drones and precision-guided missiles, since the start of the Saudi-led intervention in Yemen more than seven years ago.
Earlier this week, the United Kingdom said that it had presented the UN with evidence linking Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to the smuggling of weapons to Yemen, including footage recovered from a seized drone showing tests at a military base near Tehran.
The U.S. and its allies have also accused Iran of supplying Russian with combat and suicide drones for use in the special military operation in Ukraine. An accusation that was denied by Moscow on more than one occasion.
The plan to supply seized Iranian weapons to Ukraine reveals how the U.S. and its allies are doing everything they could to keep funneling weapons to Kiev forces.
Dus, deze hypocriete ratten mogen wel miljarden steun aan wapens en munitie leveren aan nazi Kiev met EU en NAVO, maar als Iran wapens aan Rusland geeft is het iligaal,wat een hypocriete ratten daarzo 🤣😂🤣
Go Russia, may Lord God bless your army.
Finally ukrainian forces will get some decent stuff not nato junk!
As the Gerans have showed, “made in Iran” has become a brand of excellence.
I, as a US citizen, am ashamed beyond description of the behavior and actions of what passes as the US government over the legnth of my life. What the US does on a daily basis in order to defend a bankrupt liberal financial order in the name of national security and democracy is shameful and doomed to fail. Yet in the meantime millions continue to have their lives snuffed out in order to create a perception that the “rules based order” has some super imperial precedence over national sovereignty.
I second that my fellow American
USA is a killer and murder government. Who killed peoples and children of every nations in Vietnam in korea in Afganistan in ucraine in iraq in Japon in palestine in syria and… in USA real owner peoples.
“Earlier this week, the United Kingdom said that it had presented the UN with evidence linking Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to the smuggling of weapons to Yemen, including footage recovered from a seized drone showing tests at a military base near Tehran.”
Why is delivering weapons to the poor ukrainians who are a victim of russian agression a humanitarian act and the delivering of weapons to the poor yemenites who are victims of saudi agression a crime to be persecuted by the un? Are they even trying to pretend that the un is something else but a us lobby organisation?
Less than half of US adults still agree with sending weapons to Ukraine, while only around one in four believes Washington should continue to play a “major role” in the conflict, the ‘Associated Press-NORC’ poll showed. The survey, conducted in late January, found that only 48% of Americans still support continued military aid to Ukraine, down from 60% back in May, while 29% are opposed and 22% are unsure. The support for Ukraine has been slowly declining for weeks in a row.
It could be that the Americans are no long sure that the Ukraine is a real place, or just a fictional construct from comic book movies. Reality and fiction are comprehensively merged in all US forms of mass-consumption media. The people are easily confused between the two.
State sponsor of terrorism. Has been for a long time.
America and the West claimed for a year that Russia’s is running out of weapons, yet it’s scrapping at the bottom of the barrel and now has to steal weapons to give to Ukraine. Some world hegemon there U.S.
Iran seized many US drones and sold them to China, Russia, North Korea, India and many others.
Nothing new here.
It’s a clever plan. That way, they can video every dead Ukrop with one of these weapons and claim they’re Russians. It’ll prove the Russians are running out of weapons too, and have to beg Iran for them. It’s a twofer for Blinken, Bidet and Nudelmean, Atrocities at Law.
Je suis français ancien parachutiste du 8 eme RPIMA et je soutient la grande et sainte Russie, car son combat c’est le mien anti Europe anti USA anti OTAN ras le bol de cette société LGBT copiée sur les USA
that’s $1M right in that pic
The Anglo Americans have no legal rights to capture or take weapons from Iran being shipped to another country. These are the same people sending weapons of war to the regime in Kiev zelensky and Co. Russia and Iran should flood west Europe with arms so the people can rise up against Western tyranny
Go Putin Go, save the West from the zionist lgbt sick bast Ards who are our overlords at the moment.