“Every snapshot launched”: Is the Yemeni Houthis the power of an agent for Iran? | Israeli conflict news

Tehran, Iran – The United States continued its attacks on Yemen, wounding people and causing extensive damage.

After ordered a bombing campaign against the Houthis – which has so far killed at least 53 people since Saturday – President Donald Trump said He said he will hold Iran responsible For any attacks from the group against shipping in the Red Sea.

The Houthi movement in Iran and Yemen has always been part of the regional “axis of resistance” against Israel and the United States.

However, the extent of the relationship is often disputed. Some Houthis see an Iranian agent, while others look at the Houthis as a friendly group of Iran, but independent.

On Friday, the supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khounai, said that his country does not need agents and that the Houthis are acting with their interests.

According to his general comments, US President Donald Trump is located in the first camp.

He said that Washington would look at “every shot” launched by the Houthis as a shot launched by Iran that could lead to “severe consequences.”

Do Iran and the tampering work side by side? Or is it more accurate than that? Let’s take a closer look:

Who are the Houthis?

Officially known as Ansar Allah (supporters of God), the Houthis are a The political and military movement This appeared in the 1990s, but rose to the international lead in 2014 when they took control of the Yemeni capital, SANA.

After months of fighting with the Yemeni government and other forces, a military alliance led by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia intervened with the support of the United States and the United Arab Emirates, among other things, militarily against the Houthis.

But the group still controls SANA, and if there is anything, it has grown stronger over the past decade.

Since the beginning of the Israel war on Gaza, the Houthis attacked the ships associated with Israel heading across the Red Sea, and firing direct missile attacks and drones on Israel to end its war on the besieged pocket.

What is the military support that Iran provides to the Houthis?

Tehran has supported the Yemeni armed group for years, but it denies providing it directly with advanced weapons that have been used in the fighting in the past few years.

The Houthis say they are manufacturing weapons locally, and they point out that – as a state of reality in SANA and Yemen, northwest of Yemen – they took the weapons stocks left by the government when they fled in the south.

The group tried to diversify its weapons manufacturing industry, making more weapons locally while continuing partially dependent on the imported parts.

Israel said the Houthi shell It was crashed into its territory in July 2024One person was killed and many others were wounded, a suicide plane designed by an Iranian design.

The Houthi authorities said they planned and executed the strike, and Iran was not in the episode.

A committee of the United Nations from experts said last year that the Houthis received training from Iran and the Lebanese Group Hezbollah and that the Houthis “have no ability to develop and produce complex arms systems.”

However, Western countries confirm that Iran has transported weapons and technologies to ballistic missiles, anti -sea flight missiles and a variety of drones. They also claim that the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) trained the Houthi soldiers and advised them militarily.

The United States claimed that the Houthis also tried to buy weapons and spare parts through companies in China while working to obtain Cruise anti -Russia missiles in the center of Russia The repercussions of the Moscow war in Ukraine.

How close to Iran and the Houthis are diplomatic?

Iranian diplomats often host Houthi officials, and Iranian government media. The group descends as an important member of the Tehran -led resistance axis.

The two sides were in constant contact during the civil war in Yemen, where Iran condemned the coalition attacks on Yemen amid what was described as Bassem The worst humanitarian crisis in the world.

The Houthis increased their attacks on the coalition in the aftermath of the United States ’assassination of 2020 from Qasim Solimani, the main Iranian general and the main architect of the axis.

How similar is Iran’s ideology and pollution?

It is known that the Houthis adopt a similar geopolitical discourse for Iran, support the principles of the Islamic revolution in Iran, and the Iranian political system has greatly affected it.

However, the Houthis differ from the Iranian institution in many ways.

The Houthis largely follow the Ziadi School for Shiites, Islam, which has similarities with it, but it differs from the second Shiite Islam that it practices in Iran.

Ziadi’s tradition in Yemen has been more than 1000 years ago – and the Houthis saw themselves as part of this legacy, and an organic growth as a local movement, instead of a foreign project.

The group also defined independent political and military targets, such as controlling the united Yemen and combating foreign intervention, especially by the United States and Israel.

The Houthis showed a willingness to attack the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates on the basis of the Yemeni grievances, especially those that involve Air strikes and wisdom That destroyed the local population.

Sometimes, ignore Iranian advice, including when they are Unilaterally announced the ceasefire He held talks with Saudi Arabia in 2019 when he believed that Tehran was in favor of the military resistance.

What happens now?

Washington indicated that it intends to bomb Yemen in the coming weeks, or even months.

the Dozens of weather strikes throughout the country Until now they have killed children and women, along with the Houthi fighters.

The attacks came after the Houthis threatened to resume their strikes – which stopped after the ceasefire on January 19 in Gaza – in opposing the ban on Israel for all humanitarian aid from entering the pocket.

After Israel At least 436 Palestinians were killed in Gaza On Tuesday and continued in brutal air strikes, Houthi leader Abdul -Malik Al -Houthi promised in a televised speech to take a military escalation to the highest level.

The Houthis have received five rounds of missile attacks and drones against the American aircraft carrier The Harry S Truman and supportive warships.

They announced that they had launched a missile towards Ben Gurion’s international airport. The Israeli army said the missile was intercepted.

For its part, Iran warned this The comprehensive regional war can erupt If he was attacked.

Iran’s mission to the United Nations has also wrote a letter this week to the Security Council to condemn the “reckless and provocative” data by Trump.

The militants in Tehran have increasingly indicated that they would do Click to build a nuclear bomb If the presence of the Iranian establishment is threatened.