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Combined Forces bust Houthi cell involved in smuggling weapons from Iran

[14/02/2024 07:56]

MOKHA - SABA
The Combined Forces deployed in Yemen's Western Coast have unveiled that they had busted a Houthi terrorist cell involved in smuggling arms from Iran to the terrorist militia.

The cell is linked to Houthi senior militants who stand behind arms smuggling via the Hodeidah, Ras Issa, and al-Salif seaports.

The Combined Forces aired a video of the six-member cell admitting their devious scheme of smuggling weapons from the shores of Mahrah to Somalia's shores where another Houthi cell receives the shipments and undertakes delivering them to the Houthi-controlled Hodeidah ports.

The cell also confessed they had smuggled in an arms shipment from the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas in collaboration with another smuggling group.