[YEMENONLINE.INFO] The Iranian embassy in Yemen's capital Sana'a is offering financial, strategic, and military advisory support to the Houthi ...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 Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. 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 Jews...
rebels in country, Yemen's Foreign Minister Riyadh Yassin said on Sunday.
Speaking to Asharq Al-Awsat, Yassin said Iran's embassy in Sana'a had become a "Houthi operations room" and that Iranian intelligence and military experts at the embassy were helping the Houthis plan attacks against government loyalists and forces from the Saudi-led coalition targeting the group.
He added that the embassy is "equipped with resources not even the Yemeni government is in possession of" and that it was also being used to distribute financial support to the Houthi militias currently stationed in different parts of the country.
The Shi'ite Houthis, backed by Iran and Yemen's ousted former president President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh
... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it...
, occupied Sana'a in September 2014. They then launched a coup the following February deposing Yemen's internationally recognized President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi and his government.
Yemeni government loyalist forces and a coalition of Arab counties led by Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
are currently engaged in a ground and air offensive against the Houthis, seeking to reinstate Hadi and the government.
On Sunday coalition warplanes bombed several targets in the capital, according to eyewitnesses speaking to Asharq Al-Awsat.
They said over 15 individual strikes were carried out, including several targeting the headquarters of Yemen's Special Security Forces, who are loyal to ex-president Saleh. The sources said most of the HQ's compound has now been destroyed following the air raids.