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Guterres Report: Iranian Co. Slogan on Missiles Fired at Saudi Arabia

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. Reuters
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. Reuters
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Guterres Report: Iranian Co. Slogan on Missiles Fired at Saudi Arabia

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. Reuters
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. Reuters

Missiles fired at Saudi Arabia by Houthis appear to have a slogan similar to that of Shahid Bakeri Industrial Group, according to a report for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, knowing that this group is designated on the UN blacklist.

Officials traveled to Saudi Arabia to examine the debris of missiles fired on July 22 and Nov. 4, wrote Guterres in the fourth biannual report on the implementation of UN sanctions and restrictions on Iran.

They found “that the missiles had similar structural and manufacturing features which suggest a common origin,” said Guterres in the report to the UN Security Council, seen by Reuters.

The report comes amid calls by the United States for Tehran to be held accountable for violating UN Security Council resolutions on Yemen and Iran by supplying weapons to the Houthis.

The officials are “still analyzing the information collected and will report back to the Security Council,” wrote Guterres.

A separate report to the Security Council last month by a panel of independent experts monitoring sanctions imposed in Yemen found that four missiles fired this year into Saudi Arabia appear to have been designed and manufactured by Iran.

However, the panel said it “has no evidence yet as to the identity of the broker or supplier” of the missiles, which were likely shipped to the Houthis in violation of a targeted UN arms embargo imposed on insurgent leaders in April 2015.

UN teams are anticipated to arrive in the kingdom, this month, to discuss “the mechanism of inspections and investigation” adopted by the UN on the Yemeni navy ports. On several occasions, the Coalition to Support the Legitimacy in Yemen affirmed that smuggling still takes place and accused Tehran of arming and supporting Houthis.

Following the Nov.4 ballistic missile attack, the Coalition announced a temporary closure of Yemeni ports. After two days, it started to reopen them gradually.

Turki al-Maliki, spokesman for the Coalition, declared in a previous statement that the coalition has “determined the gap and is still waiting for them”, in a hint on the anticipated UN teams. 

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Typhoon Gaemi Weakens to Tropical Storm as It Moves Inland Carrying Rain toward Central China

In this photo released by the Taiwan Ministry of National Defense, Taiwanese soldiers clear debris in the aftermath of Typhoon Gaemi in Kaohsiung county in southwestern Taiwan, Friday, July 26, 2024. (Taiwan Ministry of National Defense via AP)
In this photo released by the Taiwan Ministry of National Defense, Taiwanese soldiers clear debris in the aftermath of Typhoon Gaemi in Kaohsiung county in southwestern Taiwan, Friday, July 26, 2024. (Taiwan Ministry of National Defense via AP)
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Typhoon Gaemi Weakens to Tropical Storm as It Moves Inland Carrying Rain toward Central China

In this photo released by the Taiwan Ministry of National Defense, Taiwanese soldiers clear debris in the aftermath of Typhoon Gaemi in Kaohsiung county in southwestern Taiwan, Friday, July 26, 2024. (Taiwan Ministry of National Defense via AP)
In this photo released by the Taiwan Ministry of National Defense, Taiwanese soldiers clear debris in the aftermath of Typhoon Gaemi in Kaohsiung county in southwestern Taiwan, Friday, July 26, 2024. (Taiwan Ministry of National Defense via AP)

Tropical storm Gaemi brought rain to central China on Saturday as it moved inland after making landfall at typhoon strength on the country's east coast Thursday night.

The storm felled trees, flooded streets and damaged crops in China but there were no reports of casualties or major damage. Eight people died in Taiwan, which Gaemi crossed at typhoon strength before heading over open waters to China.

The worst loss of life, however, was in a country that Gaemi earlier passed by but didn't strike directly: the Philippines. A steadily climbing death toll has reached 34, authorities there said Friday. The typhoon exacerbated seasonal monsoon rains in the Southeast Asian country, causing landslides and severe flooding that stranded people on rooftops as waters rose around them.

China Gaemi weakened to a tropical storm since coming ashore Thursday evening in coastal Fujian province, but it is still expected to bring heavy rains in the coming days as it moves northwest to Jiangxi, Hubei and Henan provinces.

About 85 hectares (210 acres) of crops were damaged in Fujian province and economic losses were estimated at 11.5 million yuan ($1.6 million), according to Chinese media reports. More than 290,000 people were relocated because of the storm.

Elsewhere in China, several days of heavy rains this week in Gansu province left one dead and three missing in the country's northwest, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

Taiwan Residents and business owners swept out mud and mopped up water Friday after serious flooding that sent cars and scooters floating down streets in parts of southern and central Taiwan. Some towns remained inundated with waist-deep water.

Eight people died, several of them struck by falling trees and one by a landslide hitting their house. More than 850 people were injured and one person was missing, the emergency operations center said.

Visiting hard-hit Kaohsiung in the south Friday, President Lai Ching-te commended the city's efforts to improve flood control since a 2009 typhoon that brought a similar amount of rain and killed 681 people, Taiwan's Central News Agency reported.

Lai announced that cash payments of $20,000 New Taiwan Dollars ($610) would be given to households in severely flooded areas.

A cargo ship sank off the coast near Kaohsiung Harbor during the typhoon, and the captain's body was later pulled from the water, the Central News Agency said. A handful of other ships were beached by the storm.

Philippines At least 34 people died in the Philippines, mostly because of flooding and landslides triggered by days of monsoon rains that intensified when the typhoon — called Carina in the Philippines — passed by the archipelago’s east coast.

The victims included 11 people in the Manila metro area, where widespread flooding trapped people on the roofs and upper floors of their houses, police said. Some drowned or were electrocuted in their flooded communities.

Earlier in the week, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. ordered authorities to speed up efforts in delivering food and other aid to isolated rural villages, saying people may not have eaten for days.

The bodies of a pregnant woman and three children were dug out Wednesday after a landslide buried a shanty in the rural mountainside town of Agoncillo in Batangas province.