Iran-backed militias Houthis rally in Sanaa, Yemen. (AP) January 8, 2020 A member of Iran’s Quds Force, the overseas arm of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), was killed in Yemen on Friday, according to a report. Mostafa Mohammad Mirzaei, 38, was killed on Friday, the semi-official Fars news agency reported, without providing [...]
Official Houthi said that head of the militias Abdul Malek al-Houthi sent a cable to the Iranian leadership and its militias in Iraq to offer his condolences over the death of Soleimani. (AFP) January 4, 2020 The Iran-backed Houthi militias in Yemen were unsurprisingly angered by the assassination of commander of Iran’s Quds [...]
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif arrives in Muscat, Oman, Monday, October 2, 2017. (AP) December 26, 2019 Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif held talks with Omani officials in Muscat and met with Houthi spokesman Mohammed Abdul Salam, according to Iranian media. The semi-official ISNA news agency reported Wednesday that Zarif held [...]
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei meets with the spokesman of the Iranian-backed Houthi militia Mohammed Abdul Salam, Aug 13, 2019. (IRNA) December 24, 2019 A Houthi-appointed ambassador in Tehran uncovered for the first time the presence of a military relationship between Iran and the rebel group. Despite being considered by the legitimate government [...]
A Bahraini forensic police officer inspects the site of a bomb blast in the village of Sitra, south of Manama in 2017. (AFP) December 18, 2019 Bomb parts seized by security forces in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain match explosives supplied by Iran to Houthi militias in Yemen, a new report reveals. The electrical [...]
Houthi fighters chant slogans as they ride a military vehicle. (AFP) December 17, 2019 Yemeni and international human rights organizations have accused Houthi militias of ramping up their campaign of violence against women in an unprecedented manner. In its latest report, the Netherlands-based Human Rights Radar says the phenomenon of the abduction of [...]
The US State Department released photos of the seized Iranian missiles seized by the US Navy in the Arabian Sea before its arrival to Houthi militias in Yemen, Dec 5, 2019. (Supplied) By Sirwan Kajjo, Mehdi Jedinia and Katherine Ahn December 13, 2019 The recent U.S. seizure of suspected Iranian guided missile parts [...]
Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook addresses reporters at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on December 5, 2019. (US State Department) December 7, 2019 On Thursday the U.S. Special Representative on Iran said the State Department was offering $15 million for information on Yemen-based Iranian Guards senior Commander Abdul-Reza Shahlai's [...]
The US State Department released photos of the Iranian missiles seized by the US Navy in the Arabian Sea before its arrival to Houthi militias in Yemen, Dec 5, 2019. (Supplied) December 6, 2019 The US State Department has released photos of the shipment of Iranian weapons and missile parts seized by the [...]
The USS Forrest Sherman was conducting routine maritime operations when sailors noticed a small wooden boat that was not displaying a country flag.. (US Navy) December 5, 2019 A Navy warship has seized a “significant cache” of suspected Iranian guided missile parts headed to the Houthi militia in Yemen, US officials said Wednesday, marking the [...]
