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| The Red Death: Iran-backed Houthis prepare for a ground war in Yemen. | ||
| 2026-09-13 | ||
| Article published last March Iran-backed Houthis spent months converting northern Yemen's entire civilian infrastructure into a conscription apparatus. The force they built is for a war no one is planning for yet.
[IdeologyMachine] On March 6, 2026, as American and Israeli strikes hit Iran for the seventh consecutive day, thousands of Yemenis filled Saba’in Square in Sana’a. They waved Iranian flags. They chanted “Allahu Akbar Khomeini Rahbar” in Persian. Al Masirah broadcast it with Persian subtitles. The hashtags on screen read “With Iran and Lebanon.” Pictures of Khamenei were held aloft alongside slogans promising retaliation. The language was unmistakable: military escalation was coming. But this was exactly the posture of the weeks before the war, when Houthi leaders promised to turn the Red Sea into death for the enemies of God. Abd al-Malik al-Houthi had called them into the streets. He had mobilized them through the same channels that had been running for months: the mosques, the tribal networks, the mobilization offices embedded in every governorate. One week into a war that killed their patron’s supreme leader, the Houthis had not fired a single missile. They had organized a rally.
But whether and when the Houthis fire their next missile is not the point of this piece. The point is what they have been building on the ground, in the open, for months, while the world’s attention was fixed on missiles and shipping lanes. More at the link | ||
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