• Iran is helping the Houthis try to secure Russian anti-ship missiles, Reuters reported.
  • These could improve their attacks on ships in the Red Sea and threaten US warships, an expert said.
  • Two officials said Houthis met Russians twice in Tehran this year, and more meetings are coming.

Iran is helping the Houthi rebels try to secure Russian anti-ship missiles, Reuters reported, citing three Western and regional sources.

Two regional officials aware of the talks said the Houthis and Russians have met at least twice this year in Tehran, where discussions to supply the missiles were underway.

They added that more meetings are expected in the coming weeks.


Non-paywall link

  • MisterScruffy
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    5
    arrow-down
    10
    ·
    2 months ago

    Except for all those ships they’ve attacked that aren’t going to Israel, or controlled by Israel, or even have anything vaguely to do with Israel and her allies.

    Source? I thought they were only attacking ships that dock in/ship to Israel?

    Also, have they killed/indefinitely detained anyone? Or just cause property damage?

    • PugJesus@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      9
      arrow-down
      5
      ·
      2 months ago

      Source? I thought they were only attacking ships that dock in/ship to Israel?

      https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/security-aviation/2024-01-15/ty-article-magazine/30-attacks-all-red-sea-ships-targeted-by-the-houthis/0000018c-5df7-d6f9-afbc-5dff7a430000

      From the start, it’s been just taking targets of opportunity. Almost like their goal is just terrorism in service to boosting their own legitimacy as a player in the ongoing civil war.

      Also, have they killed/indefinitely detained anyone? Or just cause property damage?

      8 dead, 25 still detained.

      • Count042
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        arrow-down
        3
        ·
        edit-2
        2 months ago

        A literal Israeli newspaper article about the blockade that has done the most economic damage to Israel to date as a source for how ineptly the people who have done the most damage to Israel are not doing it right. Oh, and it 403’s, currently.

        Great sourcing there.

        There is no ongoing civil war, too. It was won completely by Ansarallah against the puppet regime that Saudi Arabia and the US tried to install through forced starvation. This bullshit “Ongoing civil war” is just another example of refusing to acknowledge the winning side when people don’t like the fact they won.

          • Count042
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            arrow-down
            1
            ·
            2 months ago

            What percentage of Yemen does Ansarallah hold?

            What do you call a civil war when one side holds no territory or power?

            I would also say that someone that claims a blockade doesn’t economically hurt the people being blockaded should get help.

            • PugJesus@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              4
              arrow-down
              1
              ·
              edit-2
              2 months ago

              What percentage of Yemen does Ansarallah hold?

              30% of the area and 70% of the population. Ongoing combat has killed thousands in the past year alone (EDIT: This is incorrect - it’s the past two years - mind is still stuck in 2023, I guess). But sure, whatever you can do to simp for murderers, right?

              I would also say that someone that claims a blockade doesn’t economically hurt the people being blockaded should get help.

              Me: “Killing random civilians of various nations in the hopes that one or two might be Israeli is bad, and clearly has not impacted the ongoing Israeli genocide, which has only intensified since. Even if they were killing Israeli civilians only, supporting that would still make you a piece of shit.”

              Sorry that you’re still in support of murdering civilians.

              • Count042
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                1
                arrow-down
                1
                ·
                edit-2
                2 months ago

                And you’re in support of a genocide.

                Arguing is easy when you put words in other peoples mouths.

                30% of the area and 70% of the population. Ongoing combat has killed thousands in the past year alone. But sure, whatever you can do to simp for murderers, right?

                Was there a UN brokered peace deal? Yes. Did it end in 2022? Yes. Has there been any fighting since then? Not significantly, no. I don’t know where your thousands dead comes from. Or the 30% figure, considering that the vast majority of that 70% you’re presumably talking about is arid desert that doesn’t have people, of any denomination, in it.

                Me: “Killing random civilians of various nations in the hopes that one or two might be Israeli is bad, and clearly has not impacted the ongoing Israeli genocide, which has only intensified since. Even if they were killing Israeli civilians only, supporting that would still make you a piece of shit.”

                According to @PugJesus@lemmy.world, this is evil, and results in killing civilians:

                • SaltySalamander@fedia.io
                  link
                  fedilink
                  arrow-up
                  1
                  arrow-down
                  1
                  ·
                  2 months ago

                  vast majority of that 70% you’re presumably talking about is arid desert

                  Christ dude, 70% of the population.

                  • Count042
                    link
                    fedilink
                    English
                    arrow-up
                    1
                    ·
                    edit-2
                    2 months ago

                    30% of the area and 70% of the population.

                    So, follow with me here: They believe incorrectly that Ansarallah controls 30% of the land that contains 70% of the population.

                    Except, and I know math can be hard, if I wanted to talk about the land that the above believes Ansarallah doesn’t control, I’d have to take the total land, 100% in this and all cases, and subtract the land the above thinks Ansarallah does control, 30% in this case.

                    So… What does 100 - 30 equal?