Today, Yemen's security forces detained a ship captained by an Iranian with 14 Pakistani crew members in Yemen's waters.
The ship, which state media said had entered Yemeni waters illegally, was held after fishermen reported its presence to authorities. The crew, 15 Pakistani sailors and an Iranian captain, are being investigated and the ship searched.
"The security apparatus in the Socotra archipelago does not rule out that the Iranian ship may have been involved in smuggling drugs to Yemen," the Defence Ministry's online newspaper said. It did not say when the ship was detained.
Strange that it's drugs Yemen is concerned about rather than, say, a major weapons shipment.
Read the full Reuters report here.
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