Sanctions relief for Iran can’t come fast enough. They’re clearly desperate for some humanitarian aid.
The U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet said on Wednesday that two of its patrol coastal ships seized a cargo of illicit weapons from a stateless fishing vessel during a flag verification boarding in the North Arabian Sea on Monday.
The shipment consists of approximately 1,400 AK-47 assault rifles and 226,600 rounds of ammunition, the fleet said in a statement.
“The stateless vessel was assessed to have originated in Iran and transited international waters along a route historically used to traffic weapons unlawfully to the Houthis in Yemen,” it added.
The Houthis are a Shiite terror group backed by Iran. Think of them as Yemen’s Hezbollah. While the Trump administration had worked with regional allies to try to keep the Houthis from gaining control of Yemen, with a potentially serious threat to energy shipments, the Biden administration followed the Democrat line of ending support for the campaign against the Houthis which resulted in the Islamic terror group expanding and even seizing the U.S. embassy in Yemen. Meanwhile, Iran is clearly arming the Houthis to continue their Jihad.
Walter Sieruk says
That spiteful chant “Death to America” is the what the leaders of that hostile and horrible tyrannical regime of Iran keep on working many of the Iranian people up into chanting, again and again. This this because the leaders of that “mullah tyranny” hate and despise the United States and her people with a vicious
passion.
This is the anti- American Islamic regime of Iran which pseudo “President” Biden strives to support and uphold with his traitorous policies.
Therefore it may be justly and truly said that Joe Biden is a treasonous villain.
Namer says
“The shipment consists of approximately 1,400 AK-47 assault rifles|
Sorry but they were not AK-47s they were AKMs. AK-47s have not been produced since 1954.
gravenimage says
You are right, Namer, but this is a bit pedantic. Americans and others in the West refer to this entire class of weapoms as AK-47s, which are still being produced.
mortimer says
Now, how could the West deliver 300,000 assault rifles to Iranian counter-revolutionaries?
noel eliscu says
Never in a 1,000,000 years, the UN would raise hell.
eduardo odraude says
The only problem with us fomenting revolution is that if we break Iran, we end up having to fix it — which could mean, for example, having to take hundreds of thousands of Iranian Muslims into the US. Non-Muslim Iranians should be allowed into the US. Iranian Muslims should stew in their own juices and then maybe they will quit Islam when they’ve had to live in pure Islam for long enough. I just don’t think it’s wise to let in huge numbers of people who have not yet rejected a religion whose founder created a totalitarian theocratic state, owned slaves, including sex slaves, had sex in his 50s with a prepubescent 9 year old girl, said “If someone leaves his Islamic religion, then kill him,” married his adopted son’s wife after getting the son to divorce her, tortured a man to get hold of a treasure, presided over the beheading of hundreds of disarmed captive men, and said the only guaranteed way to paradise was to die in wars to subjugate non-Muslims to the rule of Islamic law. He got too many “revelations” that were incredibly convenient to him. All of those facts are to be found in the core Islamic texts themselves. Not something “Islamophobes” are making up. As David Wood has often said, Muhammad was “the most obvious false prophet in history.” And Muslims the biggest victims. The more of them who learn what their imams have hidden from them, the more of them who abandon Islam. Many imams these days are reporting a tsunami of apostasy going on. Millions of people in Muslim lands are secret apostates. Perhaps Islam will collapse much more quickly than anyone thought possible — just keep shedding light on it, and it melts away to nothing like the Wicked Witch of the West melted away merely because of some water. Not until the internet age was accurate data about Islam available to everyone in the world, including Muslims themselves.
Infidel says
Who ever wrote the law ‘If you break it, you own it?’ We weren’t the ones that introduced ISIS in Iraq or Syria, yet the stupid EU opened its borders wide to them. Even if Iran collapses w/ zero input from the West, the latter would be expected to take in Iranian refugees!
We need to start organizing coups to overthrow our governments and installing regimes who’ll deport every last muslim back to dar ul islam, and leave them there! After that, we don’t need to bother about what they do within their own countries!
gravenimage says
Yeah–I could see that happening in today’s insane climate.
Keith O says
I know who’s got 1400 of them and a shit load of ammo that needs to be reallocated.
gravenimage says
US Navy Seizes 1,400 Assault Rifles From Iran-Origin Ship
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Glad these were caught–but how many more have gone through.
OLD GUY says
These countries need to fix their own problems. If they love their islamic life style, let them be, but we don’t have to do business with them or open our borders to people who are a threat to us. Sadly these islamic followers wouldn’t lift a finger to help their non-islamic brothers and sisters in their home country yet alone people in Christian or Jewish countries. We don’t need to help our enemies, you can’t buy friends.
A7E.Pilgrim says
1400 rifles and 226,600 rounds of ammunition would arm a moderately sized Neighborhood Watch in rural Elko County, NV.
gravenimage says
But it could cause a lot of damage in the hands of Jihadists.