Haley puts UN pressure on Iran over Houthi missiles Report: Iran failed to take the necessary measures to stop arms flowing to Houthis

NEW YORK: Washington’s UN Ambassador Nikki Haley on Thursday intensified pressure on Iran over its arming of Yemeni rebels, but it remained unclear whether US efforts for new international action against Tehran would succeed.

Haley said it was “time for the Security Council to act” after the release of a longawaited report by UN experts that concluded that Iran had violated an arms embargo on Yemen by providing rebels with short-range ballistic missiles and drones.

“This report highlights what we’ve been saying for months: Iran has been illegally transferring weapons in violation of multiple Security Council resolutions,” Haley said after the report’s release on Thursday.

“The United States will continue to call out Iran’s dangerous actions, but the world cannot continue to allow these blatant violations to go unanswered. Iran needs to know that there are consequences for defying the international community.”

Iran has strongly denied arming the Houthi militias, who rule northern Yemen and the capital, Sanaa, and has accused Haley of presenting “fabricated” evidence that a Nov. 4 missile fired at Riyadh airport was Iranian-made.

Iran “failed to take the necessary measures” to stop arms flowing to Houthis, the UN report concludes. It paints a bleak portrait of Yemen disintegrating into several “warring statelets” after three years of civil conflict.

The UN experts accuse all sides of abuses in a war that pits Yemen’s UN-recognized