!U.N. UNEASY ON IRAN?

OPINION: LAST WEEK - the United Nations published a report with the news a lot of people don't want to hear :

A panel of experts found that Iran is violating a United Nations weapons embargo - specifically, that missiles fired by Yemen Houthi's rebels into Saudi Arabia last year were made in Iran.

The mullahs in Iran don't want to hear this news, because it proves Iran is violating its  international agreement.

Die-hard defenders of the Iran nuclear deal don't want to hear it because it proves, once again, that the Iranian regime can't be trusted. And some members of the  United Nations don't want to hear it -

Because it is further proof that Iran is defying Security Council resolutions, and the pressure will be on the U.N. to do something about it.

The U.N. report reveals much more than just the Iranian sanctions violation. It charges the anti-government Houthi rebels with not only -

Launching ballistic missiles into Saudi Arabia but also using the people of Yemen as human shields and kidnapping Yemeni children to fight the war.

At the same time, the report notes that Saudi restrictions on imports of civilian goods into Yemen worsened the suffering there.

Saudi Arabia is now working to address that through a new Yemen humanitarian aid plan.

But this report, for all its bad news, should be welcomed by those who wish to prevent the conflict in Yemen from becoming a direct, major confrontation in the Middle East.

By confirming that Iran is the source of the missiles and other weaponry fired into Saudi Arabia, the  U.N. panel has given the world a chance to act before a missile hits a school or a hospital.