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#BREAKING
1)
#Iran's armed forces chief of staff says Iranian military officers are only offering advisory assistance to Yemen's Houthis.
tn.ai/2108762

My take:
More pressure on Tehran will reveal many more details.

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2)
Senior IRGC officer Nasser "Shaabani told Fars that Iran not only supported Yemen’s Houthis with weaponry but gave them directives to attack two Saudi Arabian oil tankers on July 25" in 2018.
jpost.com/Middle-East/Re…
3)
“… an Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) officer, known by his nom de guerre 'Abu Ali,' led a 52-man Houthi armored assault convoy armed with Katyusha missile launchers…”
warontherocks.com/2017/06/irans-…
4)
“He said that there were Iranian experts and Lebanese from Hezbollah militias currently in Saada helping run secret training facilities.”
english.alarabiya.net/en/News/gulf/2…
5)
“…Reuters has details — from Yemeni, Western and Iranian sources — of Iranian military and financial support to the Houthis before and after their takeover of Sanaa on Sept. 21.”
reuters.com/article/us-yem…
6)
“US Treasury Department sanctioned five members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps missile command over their role in the Houthi’s missile program.”
longwarjournal.org/archives/2018/…
7)
Back in 2015 (showing Obama knew about this):
“The Iranian leadership earlier this month ordered militants from the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’ (IRGC) Quds Force, along with Lebanese Hezbollah fighters, to Yemen…”
freebeacon.com/national-secur…
8)
#Iran-backed Houthis recruit children for war using slogans calling for murder, destruction & possibly even another Holocuast.
9)
“Iranian-backed Houthi rebels off the coast of Yemen launched an attack on a Saudi Arabian naval vessel using suicide boats, or fast-attack craft laden with explosives.”
uk.businessinsider.com/us-navy-iran-h…
10)
“… Houthis had concealed fighters and equipment in or close to civilians in Al Mukha in the Taiz Governorate 'with the deliberate aim of avoiding attack' and in violation of international humanitarian law.”
reuters.com/article/us-yem…
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