As EU ambassadors began discussing EU sanctions on Iran, diplomats said talks in European capitals were moving to impose new sanctions against Tehran for a number of reasons, including the ballistic missiles fired by the Houthis on Riyadh and other Saudi cities last Sunday.
“The idea is to have a final decision on Iran sanctions by — or at — the April Foreign Affairs Council,” one diplomat told Reuters in Brussels, referring to the EU’s next foreign ministers’ meeting in Luxembourg on April 16.
Meanwhile, the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday condemned a barrage of missile attacks against Riyadh, Najran, Jizan and Khamis Mushait by Yemen’s Houthi militia and expressed grave concern at reports of violations of a UN arms embargo on Houthi leaders.
In a statement, the 15-member Security Council expressed alarm at a Houthi threat to continue such attacks in the region.
