{"id":64727,"date":"2016-03-07T14:02:23","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T19:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=64727"},"modified":"2016-03-07T14:02:23","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T19:02:23","slug":"australians-intercept-iranian-arms-shipment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64727","title":{"rendered":"Australians intercept Iranian arms shipment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=64728\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-64728\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Seized-Iranian-weapons-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Seized Iranian weapons\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-64728\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Seized-Iranian-weapons-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Seized-Iranian-weapons-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Seized-Iranian-weapons-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Seized-Iranian-weapons.jpg 780w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/03\/07\/middleeast\/middle-east-weapons-seizure\/index.html\">CNN <\/a>reports that the Australian Navy&#8217;s HMAS Darwin intercepted a shipment of more than 2,000 weapons, AK 47s and RPG rocket launchers that appears to have originated in Iran and it was headed to Somalia, you know, like they don&#8217;t have enough guns in that ravaged country, or it was bound for Yemen by way of Somalia.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On board they found more than 2,000 pieces of weaponry &#8212; including 1,989 AK-47 assault rifles and 100 rocket-propelled grenades.<\/p>\n<p>According to a U.S. assessment, the weapons were believed to be initially sent from Iran and were likely intended for Houthi rebels in Yemen, Lt. Ian McConnaughey with the U.S. Navy told CNN.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Central Command is still gathering more information to determine the arms&#8217; final destination, McConnaughey said.<\/p>\n<p>An Australian Defense Ministry spokesman told CNN there were 18 people of various nationalities on board the ship, but officials could not initially confirm that their identification documents were valid. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This makes me trust John Kerry&#8217;s nuclear deal with Iran even more, or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN reports that the Australian Navy&#8217;s HMAS Darwin intercepted a shipment of more than 2,000 weapons, &hellip; <a title=\"Australians intercept Iranian arms shipment\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64727\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Australians intercept Iranian arms shipment<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/64728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}