The US government is trying to find a legal way to send Ukraine weapons allegedly sent to Houthis in Yemen by Iran, which were confiscated en route, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.

Citing anonymous US and European officials, the WSJ said the White House is looking for “wiggle room” in UN regulations so that the rifles, rockets, and ammunition seized on the high seas can be redirected to Kiev.

Though the number of weapons seized is small compared to what the US and its allies have sent Ukraine over the past year, the unnamed officials say it would be a symbolic punishment for Iran supplying Russia with drones – which both Tehran and Moscow have denied.

“It’s a message to take weapons meant to arm Iran’s proxies and flip them to achieve our priorities in Ukraine, where Iran is providing arms to Russia,” one unnamed US official told the WSJ.