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| UAE seizes drugs-smuggling Iranian ship |
| 2015-12-23 |
| DUBAI: UAE security authorities have seized an Iranian ship that was smuggling drugs and people, the state WAM news agency said on Tuesday. WAM said the ship’s captain was trying to smuggle “big amounts of drugs and two Iranian nationals through the Khaled port in the emirate of Sharjah.” Separately, six people are on trial in the UAE on charges of providing supplies to the country’s enemies from the Iran-allied Houthi movement in Yemen, WAM said. “Six Arab defendants, including a Gulf citizen, are on trial on charges of providing the terrorist Houthi movement in Yemen with communication devices and equipment,” WAM said. The Emirati public prosecutor accused them of giving the Houthis “communications devices and chemical materials,” without elaborating, according to WAM. One of the defendants managed Houthi funds in the UAE, the prosecutor said. |
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