A Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
i minister warned Tuesday that the country’s Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the
Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is
God is Great, Death to Americaâ„¢, Death to Israel, a curse on the JewsThey like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
rebels are plotting to seize land along the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, which would allow the group to further threaten the vital shipping artery.
Three Houthi military sources and a front man for Yemeni government forces bordering the waterway also told AFP the rebels are planning to advance.
Such an assault, if successful, would cement Houthi control over one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes, which the Iran-backed rebels have disrupted with attacks on passing vessels since the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
war broke out after the Hamas
..always the voice of sweet reason...
massacre in southern Israel in October 2023.
It would also extend the hold of Tehran and its allies to a second vital waterway in the Middle East after Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for
spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet
militiasto extend the regime's influence. The word
Iranis a cognate form of
Aryan.The abbreviation
IRGCis the same idea as
Stürmabteilung (or SA).The term
Supreme Guideis a the modern version form of either
Duceor
Führeror maybe both. They hate
closed the Strait of Hormuz in its war with the United States.
Greater Houthi control of Bab el-Mandeb would choke off oil exports from Saudi Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start..., against which the rebels have announced a maritime blockade.
"The Houthi militia... is working to create the conditions for seizing control of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait by expanding its presence along the western coast and attempting to control strategic Yemeni islands in the Red Sea," Yemen’s information minister Muammar al-Eryani told AFP.
He said there had been a military buildup by the Houthis and that their plans had been illustrated by "repeated targeting of ports, docks, civilian infrastructure, ships, and government naval capabilities."
The Houthis currently do not control coastal areas directly on the strait, but they hold the key port city of Hodeida to the north and have repeatedly attacked ships in the Red Sea.
In recent weeks, the rebels have launched their deadliest attacks in years on Yemeni government forces.
They have also begun targeting Yemen’s port city of Mokha, which lies close to Bab el-Mandeb, as well as military sites near the strait and government-controlled islands in the Red Sea.
Major-General Sadeq Duwaid, a front man for the government-affiliated National Resistance® Forces that control areas bordering the strait, told AFP that the rebels "are striving to secure a foothold in Bab el-Mandeb."
"Through their continued attacks on Mokha and its port, the Houthi militia seeks to establish a presence along the shores of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait and transform the area into a situation resembling that of the Strait of Hormuz," he said.
Three Houthi military sources told AFP that the group was preparing to launch an operation to seize areas south of Hodeida.
They said around 2,000 fighters had been deployed to front lines along Yemen’s western coast in the provinces of Taiz and Hodeida, along with rocket launchers.
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