The U.N. Panel of Experts on Yemen concluded in an unreleased draft report that thousands of armaments intended for Houthi rebels in Yemen probably were drawn from Iranian government stocks and shipped from the Iranian port of Jask. The Panel inspected three shipments intercepted by the United States and Saudi Arabia from stateless dhows in 2020 and 2021 and concluded all three likely departed from Jask, a growing port city that hosts a naval base and oil terminal. The shipments contained weapons that were originally manufactured in Belarus, Bulgaria, China, Iran, and Russia, as well as thermal sights manufactured by an Iranian-Chinese partnership. Iran continues to deny any arms trade with the Houthis, and the Houthis' information minister called the accusation "an illusion."