US Department of Justice seizes weapons sent by IRGC to Yemen
The US Department of Justice announced legal action to confiscate weapons sent by the IRGC to Yemen.
Following a complaint published by the US Department of Justice on Thursday, it intends to confiscate weapons sent by the Revolutionary Guard Corps to Yemen, including 9,000 rifles, 284 machine guns, 194 rocket launchers, 70 tank-guided missiles, and more than 700,000 rounds of ammunition that it has seized since 2021.
The US Navy said in a statement that the weapons were made in Iran, China and Russia and that their seizure demonstrates the US's ongoing efforts to smuggle weapons from the IRGC. Matthew Graves, a Washington, D.C., attorney general, called the Justice Department's move a step toward preventing violence and bloodshed from the IRGC and emphasized the use of all possible tools to counter the terrorist threat to global security.
Matthew Olsen, Assistant Attorney General of the United States and Head of the National Security Division of the Department of Justice, also stated in this regard: "The Iranian government, through the Revolutionary Guard Corps, continues to smuggle weapons of war to militant groups in violation of US sanctions and international law."
The US Department of Justice also announced in April of this year (2023) that it would also confiscate more than a million rounds of ammunition, thousands of explosive detonators for grenade launchers, and thousands of kilograms of RPG propellants that had been discovered by the US Navy in previous months.
