Obama Says U.S. Has Warned Iran Not To Send Weapons To Yemen
Source: Reuters
By Roberta Rampton and David Alexander
(Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Tuesday the U.S. government had sent "very direct messages" to Iran warning it not to send weapons to Yemen that could be used to threaten shipping traffic in the region.
The Pentagon said on Tuesday the presence of a large convoy of Iranian cargo ships in the Arabian Sea was one factor in the U.S. decision to deploy additional warships in the waters off war-torn Yemen.
But Army Colonel Steve Warren, a Pentagon spokesman, dismissed reports the carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt and cruiser USS Normandy had been sent to the region to intercept Iranian ships carrying arms to Iranian-backed Houthi rebels fighting forces loyal to the U.S.-backed Yemeni president.
In a televised interview on Tuesday on MSNBC's "Hardball," Obama said Washington had been "very straightforward" with Tehran about the issue.
Read more: http://in.reuters.com/article/2015/04/22/yemen-security-usa-navy-idINL1N0XI2SY20150422
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)harun
(11,348 posts)Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)then what would be relevant. Iran can't sell weapons to the Houthis because international law says they can't.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Strange, the selective application of international law.
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)But in the case of telling Iran to stop selling arms to the rebels, they are upholding international law.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)marmar
(76,983 posts)bowens43
(16,064 posts)NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)840high
(17,196 posts)ForgoTheConsequence
(4,846 posts)Just let ISIS march all over Yemen with the Saudis paving the way.
Beauregard
(376 posts)Or maybe I should say "theologically." In that part of the world they are the same thing.
Midnight Writer
(21,548 posts)We are not helping anyone. We make it worse with every Administration, whatever the intent.
Just take our toys and go home. There is nothing helpful we can do.
harun
(11,348 posts)deeply there. We are smart enough too, just that AIPAC overrides our wisdom.