# UN experts: Fuel from Iran is financing Yemen rebels' war | AP News

> UN experts said fuel shipped from Iran is financing the Houthi rebels' war in Yemen. The report describes Houthi attacks with anti-ship cruise missiles and waterborne explosives, including one on a vessel carrying wheat.

- Date: 2019-01-19 · published 2019-01-19T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: geopolitics · region Yemen · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/61012-un-experts-fuel-from-iran-is-financing-yemen-rebels-war-ap-news
- Commodities: [Wheat (SRW)](https://feedsoft.ai/c/WHEAT.md)

## Why it matters

Attacks on grain ships in the Red Sea corridor raise war-risk insurance and freight costs for food aid and commercial cargoes bound for Yemen, a modest upward pressure on wheat landed costs.

## Read by commodity

- WHEAT: bullish ▲

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## Sources

- apnews.com: https://apnews.com/general-news-international-news-b406265e1c6642fd9a614416270263b6

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