22.04.2015 - 01:15 [ Guardian ]

Barack Obama warns Iran against weapons shipments to Yemen rebels

However, the president was confident that in the event of conflict, the United States would be able to use force to degrade the Iranian regime’s nuclear program. `Our defense budget is just a little under $600bn,´ Obama said. `Theirs is a little over $17bn. Even though they have some air defence systems, if we had to we could penetrate them.´