US Seizes Iranian Weapons, Arabian Sea Seizure

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Navy: Iranian weapons confiscated at sea — and it’s the third time in two months - The U.S. Navy has confiscated a cache of weapons that it believes was been transported from Iran to Houthi rebels in Yemen, marking at least the third time in two months that such a shipment was stopped, Navy officials said.
Naval forces aboard the USS Sirocco, a coastal patrol ship, intercepted and seized the weapons March 28 from a small craft commonly known as a dhow in the Arabian Sea, the Navy announced Monday. The cache included 1,500 Kalashnikov rifles, 200 rocket-propelled grenade launchers and 21 .50-caliber machine guns, the Navy said.

Naval forces aboard the USS Gravely, a guided-missile destroyer, also responded. The dhow and its crew were allowed to depart after the weapons were seized. Photos released Monday by the Navy show the weapons lined up on the Gravely:

A cache of weapons is shown on the deck of the guided-missile destroyer USS Gravely on March 31. The weapons were seized from a dhow which was intercepted by the coastal patrol ship USS Sirocco on March 28.   A cache of weapons is assembled on the deck of the guided-missile destroyer USS Gravely.   A cache of weapons is shown here assembled on the deck of the guided-missile destroyer USS Gravely.