British Navy seizes anti-tank missiles, ballistic missile components in raid on boat from Iran

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : Royal Navy personnel then found Russian 9M133 Kornet anti-tank guided missiles - known in Iran as 'Dehlavieh' - on the vessel, as well as small fins that the United States' Navy identified as jet vanes for medium-range ballistic missiles.
47% : According to the British Defence Ministry, the raid by the Royal Navy took place on 23 February, after an American aircraft detected a small boat sailing around the waters of the Gulf of Oman from Iran.
36% : Vice-Admiral, Brad Cooper, the Commander of the US Navy's 5th Fleet, also stated that this was the "seventh illegal weapon or drug interdiction in the last three months and yet another example of Iran's increasing malign maritime activity across the region", referring to other recent raids this year by the American and French navies which intercepted arms smuggling operations from Iran to Yemen's Houthi rebels.
34% : The British Navy has seized anti-tank missiles and ballistic missile components in a raid on a small boat heading from Iran towards Yemen, in the latest such bust of illegal arms transfers to Yemen's Houthi rebels.

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