US sinks boat carrying ‘explosive materials’ from Iran to Yemen

DUBAI, 16 November 2022, (TON): The US Navy’s Fifth Fleet said “it had intercepted a fishing vessel smuggling massive amounts of explosive material while transiting from Iran along a route in the Gulf of Oman that has been used to traffic weapons to Yemen’s Houthi group.”

US forces found over 70 tons of ammonium perchlorate which is commonly used to make rocket and missile fuel as well as explosives, the Fifth Fleet said in a statement.

The Coalition battling the Iran-aligned Houthis in Yemen since 2015 has repeatedly accused Iran of supplying the group with weapons, a charge Tehran denies.

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