Last year, US Special Envoy for Yemen Tim Lenderking stated that “Iran’s support for Yemen’s Houthi movement is “quite significant and it’s lethal.”
Iran’s support includes ground training “and helping them ‘fine-tune’ their drone and missile programs”; the strike by Saudi Arabia on Sanaa “destroyed a telecommunication system used to control drones.”
This war is widely deemed to be “a proxy war between rivals Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shia Iran,” and it is spreading. Houthi rebels recently fired ballistic missiles at the UAE, which they regard as a traitor to Islam because of its normalization with Israel.
The more funds Iran acquires, the more aggressive it will become. In Yemen, it is supporting the violent promotion of Twelver Shiism over the traditional Zaydi sect practiced in Yemen.
Meanwhile, the West thinks it will gain control over Iran by pursuing the revival of a failed nuclear deal that was (and still is) based on the fallacious assumption that Iran will be honest.” Iran long ago admitted to violating the 2015 nuke deal. All the while, it continued making a bomb, expanding its aid to its proxies, and strengthening its military. The West continues to enable and embolden Iran, which can only result in catastrophic consequences.
“Saudi-led coalition bombs Sanaa, says it hit drone-control site,” Al Jazeera, February 14, 2022:
The Saudi-led military coalition fighting Yemen’s Houthi rebels says it has destroyed a telecommunication system used to control drones in the rebel-held capital, Sanaa, according to the official Saudi news agency SPA.
The bombing on Monday targeted a ground station for satellites in the vicinity of the telecommunication ministry in northern Sanaa, residents told news agencies. It was not immediately clear if there were any casualties.
“The Houthis are using the Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Technology in Sanaa for hostile operations,” the coalition was quoted as saying by SPA.
Later on Monday, Houthi-run television Al Masirah reported a coalition attack targeting the telecommunication ministry, destroying the TeleYemen telecoms company building and damaging a neighbouring building.
The coalition said the raids were in response to a drone attack on Thursday on Saudi Arabia’s Abha airport near the border which left 12 injured by falling debris after Saudi air defences blew up the “bomb-laden” projectile.
The coalition had warned it would strike positions from which the Houthis launch drones in Sanaa and asked civilians to leave civilian areas used for military purposes.
Yemen’s war broke out in 2014 when the Houthis seized Sanaa, prompting the Saudi-led coalition to intervene the following year to prop up the internationally recognised government.
The Houthis have fired drones and missiles into Saudi Arabia – including at airports and oil installations – during the conflict, and recently targeted Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, also a coalition member….
Infidel says
Looking at a map, it looks amazing that Saudi Arabia struggles against a small country like Yemen, until one understands that Saudi Arabia’s population is just a bit more than Yemen
Hugh Fitzgeral says
“Iran’s support for Yemen’s Houthi movement is “quite significant and it’s lethal.”
That reminds me, most off-topically, of that line from Seinfeld –“they’re real and they’re spectacular.”
gravenimage says
Saudi Arabia bombs telecommunication system in Houthi-held Sanaa
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More “Alien vs Predator”…
OLD GUY says
The Muslim world has been infighting for power and control forever. It was a lot less messy for us when they all lived in tents, mud huts and rode camels for transportation prior to cell phones. Now they can threaten everyone with their islamic hate force.