Iranian Warships Arrive in Yemen Port
Iranian Warships Arrive in Yemen Port, The Jewish Press, Hana Levi Julian, April 23, 2015
Saudi Arabia airstrikes were aimed at Iranian-backed Houthi rebels who seized positions in neighboring Yemen. Iran is believed to be arming the rebels. Photo Credit: KSA
Iranian warships arrived Thursday in the southern Yemen port of Aden despite the presence of several U.S. warships in the area as well. It is believed the Iranian vessels are carrying weapons to re-arm the Shiite Houthi rebels who have seized control over the port city and the nation’s capital, Sa’ana.
Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United States, Adel al-Jubeir, said Wednesday that his nation’s air force had achieved its objectives and has concluded its bombing campaign.
“We destroyed the air force, we destroyed their ballistic missiles as far as we know; we destroyed their command and control; we destroyed much, if not most of their heavy equipment and we made it very difficult for them to move from a strategic perspective,” al-Jubeir said. He added that Saudi forces had “eliminated the threat they posed to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia” but . said that in the long run, there is “no military solution” to the conflict.
According to the World Health Organization, 1,080 people have been killed in the past month in Yemen, and 4,352 others have been wounded.
Coalition warplanes picked up where Saudi Arabian air force pilots left off and continued on Thursday to pound Houthi rebels in southern Yemen. The international forces targeted rebel positions in Aden and the central city of Taiz, according to Voice of America.
A severe humanitarian crisis has been created in the war-torn region, according to VOA, but the Shi’ite rebels still remain. Yemen President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi has fled for his life to Saudi Arabia.
Although Iran claimed that it welcomes an end to “killing innocent and defenseless civilians” and seeks a political resolution to the conflict, its warships laden with arms for the rebels– as usual – tell a different story.
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April 23, 2015 at 5:52 PM
Unbelievable. I throw my hands up!
April 23, 2015 at 6:03 PM
Reblogged this on Oyia Brown.
April 24, 2015 at 2:20 AM
was ANYTHING actually off-loaded from the Iranian ships? Did the ships actually dock? or did the vessels merely arrive in the vicinity of Aden, and simply make a U-turn, and head back to Bandar Abbas? it takes many hours to actually dock an ocean going vessel, after in has arived in the vicinity of a port. The moving vessel must be brought to a halt. and a tug, more than one tug must carefully move it close to the dock, or quay, or jetty, and then carefully nudge it into precise position so that cranes can then be deployed to remove the cargo. this doesn’t happen in one or two hours. so, what happened in THIS case?
April 24, 2015 at 2:43 PM
The article was changed. Apparently, it was misleading and inaccurate. The opening paragraphs now reads:
“Iranian warships neared the southern Yemen port of Aden Thursday despite the presence of several U.S. warships in the area as well. It is believed the Iranian vessels are carrying weapons to re-arm the Shiite Houthi rebels who have seized control over the port city and the nation’s capital, Sa’ana.
The Iranian vessels since have stopped approaching Aden, but reports that they have turned back have not been confirmed,.”