Once
again, U.S. Central Command has delivered a cache of Iranian-made armaments to
the government of Ukraine, as a small
contribution to an American ally.
Earlier,U.S.
forces transferred 5,000 assault rifles, plus machine guns, sniper rifles,
RPG-7s and over 500,000 rounds of rifle ammunition to Ukraine. The guns are
enough to equip one Ukrainian brigade.
Iran is the primary supporter of Yemen's Houthi rebel fraction, providing
arms for its long-running civil war against the internationally-recognized
Yemeni government and its Saudi and Emirati backers.
Iran
continues to support the Houthi movement, and it supplies the advanced
anti-ship weaponry that Houthi fighters have been using to target Western
shipping since November.