A UN team completed on Thursday its investigation into an Iran-linked arms cargo which was seized in January off Yemen, the state-run September 26 website reported.
The team will submit a report on the probe to the UN Security Council in two weeks, the website said. The team arrived in Yemen almost a week ago after the Yemeni government requested the UN Security Council’s Iran Sanctions Committee to help it investigate the arms cargo that included ‘very dangerous explosives and anti-aircraft missiles’.
Senior officials have recently said the Iranian weapons exposed external conspiracies targeting Yemen pointing out at press conferences “such weapons could kill many people, maybe millions”.
The has inspected the contents of the cargo in the port city of Aden and investigated the six-member Yemeni crew.
Yemen has directly accused Iran of sending arms to some local groups including the Shiite Houthi Group in the far north and some factions seeking the separation of the south.
The Houthi Group, which fought the army six times under the former regime era, is seen by experts as the second most dangerous armed group in the country after Al-Qaeda which has been taking advantage of the power vacuum and unrest to control towns and spread violence.
More recently, President Abdrabu Mansour Hadi urged the international community, mainly the ten sponsors of the West-backed power-transfer deal, to help the government face the Iranian meddling and plots to destabilize Yemen.
Meanwhile, observers and military experts have criticized the government for focusing only on Iranian arms while ignoring other arms cargoes including those coming from Turkey.
in recent months, several arms cargoes have been seized off Yemen adding to the big problems including alarming security disorder that observers argued cast a cloud on the political transition and are threatening the national unity.