US Navy seizes 2,100 rifles from ship ‘bound for Iranian-backed rebels in Yemen’

Hundreds of AK-47 assault rifles sit on the flight deck of the destroyer USS The Sullivans (US Navy photo via AP)

The US Navy has seized more than 2,100 assault rifles from a ship in the Gulf of Oman which are believed to have come from Iran and been heading to Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthi rebels.

It was the latest capture of weapons allegedly heading to the Arab world’s poorest country.