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RFL/RE – U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis says Washington with deal with Iran through a “diplomatically-led effort,” a day after a top U.S. diplomat said Tehran was supplying weapons to the Huthi rebels in Yemen.
The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, said there was concrete evidence that Iran was supplying arms to the Huthi rebels in violation of UN sanctions during a December 14 news conference held at a Washington-area military warehouse where U.S. defense officials put weapons fragments on display.
Mattis told reporters at the Pentagon on December 15 that such evidence did not warrant an expanded military response from Washington.
“It’s the reason Ambassador Haley was there and not one of our generals,” Mattis said. “This is a diplomatically-led effort to expose to the world what Iran is up to.”
Mattis condemned Tehran for its support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and the Lebanese group Hizballah.
“To expose what they are doing is healthy for the international community for their awareness of what’s going on there.”
Haley has also claimed that missiles fired on November 4 from Yemen toward an airport in Saudi Arabia’s capital, Riyadh, were made in Iran.
UN officials who examined debris from the missiles said they could not conclude that they came from an Iranian supplier.
Based on reporting by AFP and Military Times
