{"id":8769,"date":"2017-11-08T00:48:14","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T05:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/?p=8769"},"modified":"2017-11-08T00:48:14","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T05:48:14","slug":"us-will-not-turn-blind-eye-as-iran-supplies-missiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/8769\/","title":{"rendered":"#US \u2018will not turn blind eye\u2019 as #Iran supplies missiles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arab news Nov. 07, 2017:<\/span> JEDDAH:<\/span> The US accused Iran on Tuesday of breaking international law by supplying ballistic missiles fired at Saudi Arabia, and said the US would \u201cnot turn a blind eye to these serious violations.\u201d
\n\u201cBy providing these types of weapons to the Houthi militias in Yemen, Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guard Corps is violating two UN resolutions simultaneously,\u201d said Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the UN.
\n\u201cWe encourage the UN and international partners to take the necessary action to hold the Iranian regime accountable.\u201d
\nIran supplied missiles fired at Makkah in July, and most recently at Riyadh last Saturday. Both were launched from Yemen. The Houthis boasted on Tuesday that they had ballistic missiles with a range of 1,500km and threatened to attack more cities in Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
\nCol. Aziz Rashed, an army spokesman with a Houthi-allied unit, warned travelers to stay away from Saudi and UAE airports. \u201cAll airports, ports, border crossings and areas of any importance to Saudi Arabia and the UAE will be a direct target of our weapons,\u201d a Houthi spokesman told reporters in Sanaa, according to The Associated Press.
\nHaley has accused Iran in the past of illegal arms deals and military support in Yemen, Lebanon and Syria, and has repeatedly called on the UN Security Council to take a tougher stance.
\nUnder the UN Security Council resolution that enshrines the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, Tehran is prohibited from supplying, selling or transferring weapons outside the country unless approved in advance by the Security Council.
\nA separate UN resolution on Yemen bans the supply of weapons to militia chief Abdul Malik Al-Houthi, two Houthi commanders, Yemen\u2019s former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, his son, and \u201cthose acting on their behalf or at their direction.\u201d
\nWashington\u2019s options now are to ask the Security Council\u2019s 15-member Yemen sanctions committee to blacklist individuals or groups, or to seek a new Security Council resolution to impose sanctions on Iran. The latter is likely to be vetoed by Russia, according to a Reuters report.
\nIn a phone conversation on Monday night, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman told British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson that the involvement of the Iranian regime in supplying Houthi militias with missiles \u201cis considered a direct military aggression by the Iranian regime and may be considered an act of war against the Kingdom.\u201d
\nJohnson condemned the missile launch against Riyadh last Saturday and the deliberate targeting of civilians, and said Britain stood with Saudi Arabia in confronting security threats.
\nThe missile launch was \u201cmost likely a war crime,\u201d Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday, and was carried out by the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir said. \u201cIt was an Iranian missile launched by Hezbollah from territory occupied by the Houthis in Yemen,\u201d Al-Jubeir said in an interview with CNN on Monday.
\nIn the US, Pentagon spokesman Marine Maj. Adrian Rankine-Galloway said Saudi Arabia had exposed Iran\u2019s \u201cmalign role in Yemen\u201d and its provision of dangerous missile systems to Houthi militants. \u201cWe continue to maintain strong defense ties with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and work together on common security priorities to include combat operations against violent extremist organizations, and neutralizing Iran\u2019s destabilizing influence in the Middle East region,\u201d he said.
\nIn Riyadh, Canadian Ambassador Dennis Horak condemned the missile attack on the city. \u201cThis attack constitutes a serious escalation in the conflict and poses a growing risk to regional stability and security,\u201d he said in a written statement to Arab News.
\n\u201cThe intentional targeting of civilians cannot be tolerated and Canada calls on the Houthi rebels and their supporters to refrain from such indiscriminate attacks against civilians in both Yemen and Saudi Arabia,\u201d he said.
\nOubai Shahbandar, a Syrian-American analyst and fellow at the New America Foundation\u2019s International Security Program, said: \u201cIt is clear that the leadership in Tehran is shipping more advanced missiles to Houthi militias with the specific aim of targeting major Saudi cities, such as Riyadh.
\n\u201cIran is already banned from proliferating advanced missiles to regional terrorist organizations like Lebanese Hezbollah, but they continue to move these deadly weapon systems which are ultimately used as a terror weapon to target civilians. The Houthi militias are copying Hezbollah\u2019s playbook. The only real solution is to neutralize the problem at its source \u2014 the missile shipping and manufacturing centers in Iran.\u201d
\nIran\u2019s supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei and Revolutionary Guards Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani \u201ccare little about UN Security Council Resolutions where they can count on the Russian veto,\u201d Shahbandar said.
\n\u201cThe only language they truly understand is that of power and deterrence. They must be made to believe that they have crossed a red line and that any further strategic missile strikes will be met with a crippling response.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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