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Iranian advisers played a key role in the stunning advance by Yemen’s Houthis, sources tell AP

Iranian advisers played a key role in the stunning advance by Yemen’s Houthis, sources tell AP

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Iran's Revolutionary Guard officers stood on Yemeni soil directing the blitz that handed the Houthis the Red Sea coast in under 48 hours, and pretending otherwise is willful blindness. Tehran supplied the missiles, drones, satellite intelligence and battlefield commanders that turned a stalled militia into a force choking Saudi oil exports. Cut off Iran's weapons pipeline and the Houthi threat shrinks.

Calling the Houthis an Iranian puppet is a comforting fiction that guarantees failure. US spy agencies found no evidence Tehran dictates their operations, and the group has openly defied Iranian pleas to de-escalate, built its own weapons from Chinese parts and struck unilateral cease-fires against Iran's wishes. Squeezing Tehran solves nothing when the decisions are made in Sanaa.


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