Iran Violated Yemen Arms Embargo, U.N. Experts Say<br />12, 2018<br />A United Nations panel has concluded that Iran violated an arms embargo imposed on Yemen by failing to prevent the Houthi rebels in<br />that war-ravaged nation from obtaining Iranian missiles, including one fired hundreds of miles into Saudi Arabia two months ago.<br />The report came nearly a month after Nikki R. Haley, the American ambassador to the United Nations, showed reporters a display of recovered war debris, including missile pieces and drone fragments,<br />that she described as proof of Iranian complicity in arming the Houthis.<br />The findings, in a report given to the United Nations Security Council this week, could add weight to American and Saudi efforts to ostracize Iran with accusations<br />that the Iranians are engaged in destabilizing behavior in the Middle East.<br />There was no immediate comment from Iran on the United Nations report, which was prepared by<br />experts for a Council panel responsible for monitoring compliance with the arms embargo.<br />Saudi Arabia and the United States have long accused Iran of arming the Houthis in Yemen, the Arab world’s most impoverished country.<br />But by failing to keep such weapons out of Yemen, the report said, "the Islamic Republic of Iran is in noncompliance" with Resolution<br />2216, adopted nearly three years ago after the war between the Houthi rebels and the Saudi-backed government in Yemen had begun.
