Five Iranians blacklisted for giving missile technology to Yemen’s Huthis, says US
Washington — The US treasury blacklisted five Iranians who allegedly supplied ballistic missile technology to Yemen’s Huthi rebels on Tuesday, a day after Washington warned Tehran it faced the "strongest sanctions in history". The US treasury said the five placed on its sanctions list were linked to an operation by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps to support Huthi attacks on cities in Saudi Arabia, which leads the Gulf coalition fighting the Yemeni rebels. According to Riyadh, the Huthis have launched more than 130 ballistic missiles at Saudi Arabia since 2015, many of them intercepted by anti-missile defence systems. In November 2017, they launched a missile which reached Riyadh, and the attacks have increased this year. Iran has denied supplying missiles to the Huthis, while the group has insisted they developed the missiles themselves. But the US says it has irrefutable evidence of Iran’s involvement. Actions by the Revolutionary Guards "have enabled the Huthis to launch mis...
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