Yemen government accuses IRGC and Hezbollah of sending 21 experts to support Houthis

Yemen’s Interior Minister, Major-General Ibrahim Haidan, says 14 experts from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and seven from Hezbollah are helping the Houthis plan and direct military operations. His statement places them across six locations, including Hodeidah, Sanaa and Saada, and says their specialties include missiles, drones, electronic warfare and naval operations. Haidan warned that their activities threaten shipping in the Bab al-Mandeb strait and the Red Sea, and urged the international community to designate the Houthis a terrorist organisation and enforce the UN arms embargo. Fighting has resumed in five provinces after the Houthis seized Yemen’s western Red Sea coast and the Bab al-Mandeb area in September.