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RIYADH — The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom has one of the warships on Thursday. Weapons including engines for ground-to-air missiles and cruise missiles from smugglers in the international waters of southern Iran earlier this year who said they had seized Iranians.
On January 28th and February 25th, HMS Montrose Frigate helicopters found a speedboat off the coast of Iran, with dozens of packages containing advanced weapons. It was confiscated, the Royal Navy said. In the statement.
"The confiscated package was returned to the UK for technical analysis and shipped with multiple rocket engines for a batch of Iran-produced 351 land-attack cruise missiles and 358 ground-to-air missiles. It became clear that it was included. "The statement was added.
A British statement does not say where the missiles are bound, but the 1,000 km range 351 cruise missile targets the Houthi group in Yemen in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. It says that it is often used for.
The Iranian government did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Houthi officials could not comment immediately.
Riyadh and Abu Dhabi have been allied with Houthis in a conflict that has been widely seen as a surrogate war between two western-backed Arab Gulf countries and Iran since 2015. Continues.
The US Navy destroyer USS Glidley supported the February seizure, the Royal Navy said. He added that both attacks occurred during HMS Montrose's regular maritime security operations.
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