A federal jury convicted Muhammad Pahlawan, 49, on Thursday for smuggling Iranian weapons to the Houthi terrorists in Yemen and for threatening “multiple” witnesses, the U.S. Justice Department stated .

U.S. forces, including Navy SEALs, captured the Pakistani national when they boarded an unflagged, small ship that he was captaining, with 13 other people aboard, off the coast of Somalia on Jan. 11, 2024.

When the U.S. forces searched the boat, they found and “seized Iranian-made advanced conventional weaponry, including ballistic missile components, anti-ship cruise missile components and a warhead,” per the Justice Department. (Two Navy SEALs died in the operation.)

The cache is “consistent with the weaponry used by the Houthi rebel forces during the time of the charged conspiracy

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