The operation revealed that both Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Hezbollah were involved in the weapons smuggling, using shipping routes from Africa and Asia towards the Houthi-controlled territory in Yemen. The report added that, along with conventional weapons, chemical weapons were also smuggled to the Houthis during the operation, citing interrogations of the crew.
The main shipment, which came through Djibouti, left with a commercial cover and camouflaged itself as "generators, electrical transformers, air pumps, and hydraulic columns." There were already 12 similar operations that involved sending these types of weapons to the Houthis. According to the report, four out of the seven smugglers came directly from Iran, participating in several operations that involved weapons and chemical materials, while the other three were of Somali and Indian origin. (Read More)