THE IRANIAN SHIP FLOTILLA TURNS AWAY FROM YEMEN FOR RESUPPLY PURPOSES IT SEEMS FOR NOW AS THE US BLOCK OF YEMEN PORTS PROVES TOO MUCH–AS SAUDI ARABIAN FORCES PRESS THE ATTACK WITH FIGHTER PLANES AGAINTS THE IS IN YEMEN

An Iranian ship convoy suspected of carrying weapons for Shiite rebels in Yemen has turned back, US officials said, as Saudi-led warplanes kept up air strikes on the anti-government forces.

The conflict has sent tensions soaring between Sunni-ruled Saudi Arabia and Shiite Iran, which backs the Huthi rebels, raising fears Yemen could become a new front in a proxy war between Middle East powers.

Yemeni Foreign Minister Riyadh Yassin on Thursday accused Tehran of trying to break a naval blockade on his country, describing the war as an "Iranian plot implemented by the Huthi militia".

A US official said Thursday the nine-ship Iranian convoy that had been heading for Yemen is "no longer on the same course".

The USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier and other American warships have deployed off Yemen's coast to track the Iranian flotilla and possibly prevent any arms deliveries to the Iran-backed Huthi Shiite rebels.

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