UPDATE 2-Iran moves ships, reducing tensions near Yemen -Pentagon's Carter
A flotilla of nine Iranian naval and cargo ships that U.S. officials feared was carrying arms to strife-torn Yemen sailed northeast in the direction of Iran on Friday, and this should ease U.S. concerns, a Pentagon spokesman said. The Iranian state news agency IRNA, however, quoted Iran's top navy commander, Admiral Habibollah Sayyari as saying on Saturday that the flotilla was still carrying out its mission in the Gulf of Aden. Iranian-allied Houthi militia sidelined the Yemeni central government after seizing the capital Sanaa in ...
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