RIYADH: The British navy said on Thursday one of its warships had seized Iranian weapons, including surface-to-air-missiles and engines for cruise missiles, from smugglers in international waters south of Iran early this year.

A helicopter from the frigate HMS Montrose spotted speedboats moving away from the Iranian coast on Jan 28 and Feb 25 and dozens of packages containing the advanced weaponry were confiscated, the navy said in a statement.

The British navy said: “The seized packages were returned to the UK for technical analysis which revealed that the shipment contained multiple rocket engines for an Iranian-produced land attack cruise missile and a batch of 358 surface-to-air missiles.”

Published in Dawn, July 9th, 2022