Brigadier General Tareq Mohammed Abdullah Saleh, member of Yemen's Presidential Leadership Council and commander of the National Resistance Forces, announced the interception of a large Iranian weapons shipment in the Red Sea, destined for the Houthi militia.

In a statement on platform X, Saleh revealed that the 750-ton shipment was tracked through precise intelligence operations and seized in a successful naval interception by resistance forces.

The intercepted cargo included:

• Naval and aerial missile systems

• Advanced radar and surveillance equipment

• Combat drones

• Signal interception devices

• Anti-tank guided missiles

• B-10 recoilless rifles

• High-precision sniper rifles

• Large quantities of ammunition and other combat gear

Military affairs journalist Adnan al-Jabarny published images of the seized weapons, verifying that many of them matched identical models previously paraded by the Houthis as domestically manufactured in Sana’a—debunking years of propaganda about a "local arms industry."

Among the confiscated weapons was Iran’s Ghaem-118 air defense missile system, officially unveiled by Tehran earlier this year. According to al-Jabarny, Iran had already begun transferring the system to the Houthis in 2023 under the codename "Saqr-4."

The cargo also contained Iranian "Noor-Qadir" naval cruise missiles, which have been smuggled into Yemen since 2017 and rebranded by the Houthis as "Mandeb-1" to support claims of local production.

General Saleh emphasized that the seizure dealt a major blow to the Iranian arms supply network in Yemen and reaffirmed the National Resistance’s ongoing commitment to countering Iran’s Revolutionary Guard expansion:
“Long live the Republic of Yemen.”