Two regional officials told Reuters that the Houthis had met at least twice this year already in Tehran with Russians to discuss anti-ship missiles.
  • 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.

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  • MisterScruffyEnglish
    610·
    2 months ago

    If it stops goods from getting to Israel then it’s a successful blockade, which does hurt Israel

    • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      53·
      2 months ago

      Oh, good, and the other 90% of ships they’ve attacked?

      Acceptable collateral damage. I guess it’s okay to have worse ratios of targets-to-nontargets than the fucking Israelis if you say all the right anti-imperialist words.

      • MisterScruffyEnglish
        33·
        2 months ago

        I don’t think anyone on those tankers deserved to die but I also know that the hundreds of thousands killed in Gaza (and the West Bank) didn’t deserve to die. Yemen is putting up a blockade and saying we will keep doing this until the genocide stops. It might be ugly but its a good cause and theyre the only country taking a stand. I applaud that. No shipping from anywhere to anywhere should go through the gulf of aden until the mass slaughter ends