What are we going to do about Iran?
President Trump has been leaning on Iran to cease their support for Houthi rebels in Yemen, who are launching attacks on shipping in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. A new report now reveals that not only have top Iranian military leaders been providing support for the Houthis, but Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is personally involved.
Following a year of significant setbacks in the Middle East for Iran with its proxy forces flagging in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon and Syria, Tehran is leaning on its influence over the Houthi terrorist group in Yemen to carry out its offensive aims.
According to findings obtained by sources embedded in Tehran who are affiliated with the Iranian resistance group called the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran, not only are some of Iran’s most senior military officials in its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) involved in Houthi decision-making, but Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has his thumb on the deadly group.
President Donald Trump’s recent threats against Tehran over its sponsorship of the Houthis are supported in the report, which claims well-placed sources have confirmed that one of the most senior commanders in the IRGC’s Quds Force – the elite branch of the Iranian military – is “directly commanding Houthi activities.”
There has been a spike in terrorist attacks since the Oct. 7th attacks in Israel, by the Houthis and other groups. It has long been presumed that Iran is providing training and logistic support for most, if not all, of the groups operating in the Middle East; not only the Houthis but also Hamas, Hezbollah, and their ideological counterparts throughout the world. This report confirms that support and even direction.
More than 100 attacks on commercial shipping vessels have been committed by Houthi forces since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, which sparked responses from surrounding terrorist networks, including Hezbollah.
The exchange of missile and drone fire by both the Houthis and U.S. forces escalated this week when the terrorist network threatened to renew strikes on Israeli vessels after Jerusalem cut off humanitarian aid headed for the Gaza Strip this month.
President Trump responded by vowing “overwhelming lethal force” until the Houthi attacks ceased and warned Iran that it would be held “fully accountable” for any attacks.
Iran is, as we have reported regularly, the world’s foremost state sponsor of Islamic terrorism. This is a problem that will continue until there is some dramatic change in Iran; that country is, quite literally, the head of the snake. Unfortunately, it’s a pretty isolated snake that has some significant geographical advantages to any force that might contemplate moving in and taking the mullahs out directly.
The Trump administration has been relying on economic sanctions and striking at Iran’s proxies, like the Houthis.
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Yemen, though, is a particular problem. The Iranian embassy in Yemen includes no members of the Islamic Republic’s diplomatic corps at present; the embassy is staffed and controlled by members of the Quds Force, which is part of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard. It is, in fact, a military headquarters. And the Houthis are in a position that allows them to attack shipping in a key sea lane that sees as much as 12 percent of global shipping, every year.
Iran isn’t interested in discussing the matter with the American media.
The Iranian Embassy in Sana’a, Yemen, did not respond to Fox News Digital’s questions.
You don’t say.
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