WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday urged the U.N. Security Council to extend an arms embargo on Iran and said the U.S. and partner forces last month seized a vessel carrying arms to Houthi rebels in Yemen.
“The Security Council must extend the arms embargo on Iran to prevent further conflict in the region,” Pompeo told a State Department news conference. “No serious person can possibly believe Iran will use any weapon it receives for peaceful ends.”
(Reporting by Jonathan Landay and Humeyra Pamuk; Editing by Bernadette Baum)
