Strategic experts who spoke on condition of anonymity said that the Iranian Fourth Fleet access to the Gulf of Aden would increase the process of smuggling weapons to rebel militants, subversive groups, and terrorist organizations in Somalia, North and South Yemen.
When speaking to Akhbar Al-Yaum Newspaper earlier this week, they pointed out that the arrival of the Iranian task force to the Gulf of Aden, including a large number of pieces of weapons, and 256 people, made a clear threat to Yemen and neighboring countries, particularly Saudi Arabia.
The coincided of Iranian official’s remarks together with warnings made by Iranian Friday sessions’ scholars to some neighboring countries of Yemen and in which they warned about the bad consequences of the killing of Shiites in Sa’ada in north of Yemen, reveals the scope of the evil Tehran plans to both Riyadh and Sana’a, the experts said.
They further said that the arrival of the Iranian Fourth Fleet to the Gulf of Aden would enhance weapons delivery to the province of Sa’ada in the north and the provinces of Hadramout and Mahra in the south of Yemen.
The Iranian Navy, which is now in Amman uses Somali pirates, number of workers in the field of fishing, and Eritrean marines to smuggle arms to three governorates of Yemen, they said.
Moreover, they said that the provinces of Hadramout and Mahra have recently witnessed series of unrivaled activities of arms smuggling, which indicates that Iran would ignite the situation in a number of southern provinces over Al-Qaeda sleeping cells on the one hand and the subversive elements on the other.
During three recent weeks, Al-Qaeda has began implementing a number of crimes and armed attacks against military personnel, security forces, government buildings, and private interests consequently, they added.
Earlier last week, opposition parties in Eritrea said that Iran was using Eritrea base to transfer arms to the rebels in Yemen, confirming that the rebel militants in Yemen were receiving weapons from Iran through Eritrea.
Iran move arms to the coastal cities in Eritrea, mainly the city of Assab of which smugglers smuggle weapons at night to Houthis, they said.