Iran and Hezbollah military leaders aiding Houthis attacks on vessels crossing Red Sea: reports
NY Post
Military leaders from Iran and Hezbollah are assisting Houthis on the ground in Yemen to bolster the Tehran-backed terrorist group’s strikes on shipping vessels crossing the Red Sea, according to reports citing regional and Iranian sources.
Iran has beefed up its supply of weapons to the Houthis — who were labeled terrorists by US officials on Wednesday — by shipping out advanced drones along with anti-ship cruise missiles, precision-strike ballistic missiles and medium-range missiles, sources said.
Members from both Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and Tehran-backed Hezbollah have also been spotted in Yemen assisting the Houthis with training, helping them assemble missile parts smuggled into the country, and supervising military operations, according to former Yemeni army sources.
“The Revolutionary Guards have been helping the Houthis with military training” on advanced weapons, an Iranian insider said.
“A group of Houthi fighters were in Iran last month and were trained in an IRGC base in central Iran to get familiar with the new technology and the use of missiles.”
The Houthis, a radical Shia Islamist sect who control the majority of Yemen, have ramped up their Red Sea attacks since Oct. 7, after Iranian-backed Hamas terrorists slaughtered 1,200 people in Israel and sparked the invasion of Gaza.
