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Yemen Says Latest Iranian Weapons 'Revealed Conspiracies against Its Stability'
2013-02-10
[Yemen Post] Yemeni security bigshots said on Saturday the weapons cargo seized recently at the Aden port has exposed Iran's attempts to destabilize Yemen which is preparing for a comprehensive dialogue conference.

At a presser, interior minister, Abdulqadir Qahtan, said the weapons were seized onboard an Iranian vessel, Jihan 1, and included anti-aircraft missiles and dangerous explosives and equipment.

Congratulating the Iranian people and government on the national day, he criticized the plots to destabilize Yemen through smuggling dangerous weapons. "Yemen is a Mohammedan country and its people are in need of food not cargoes of dangerous explosives and weapons designed to destroy humans and lands," he said.

At the news conference, chair of the national security system, Ali Hassan Al-Ahmadi, said Yemen is suffering from increasing smuggling of weapons and that the recently seized arms cargoes were very dangerous to the country's security.

"The cargoes should not be blamed on arms dealers and saboteurs. They included cleansing and dangerous explosives which means governmental and systemic bodies have been behind," he said.

On Friday, the state news agency Saba revealed that the Yemeni government had asked for help from the UN security council to investigate the latest weapons cargo pointing to Iran as being involved in that cargo.

"The recent arms cargoes were different from those smuggled by arms dealers which usually include light weapons such as pistols and machine guns," Al-Ahmadi said. "The latest cargo revealed clear evidence there are conspiracies to affect Yemen's stability and security".

He affirmed that Yemen has the right to defend its people and lands and will sue those involved in comprising to destabilize it.

Another interior ministry official revealed the complicated way the Iranian weapons were smuggled onboard a diesel transport ship saying it was carrying 73 tonnes of diesel and about 40 tonnes of dangerous weapons.

"The weapons were hidden and smuggled in a very complicated way inside one of the diesel tanks onboard the ship. The authorities discovered the cargo after hard search but definitely after obtaining reliable information about it," the official continued.

In recent months, several arms cargoes have been placed in durance vile
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at Yemeni ports including Turkish pistols and equipment to produce light weapons.

Posted by:Fred

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