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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  • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    178·
    2 months ago

    Yeah, you go Houthis, sink that oil tanker owned by Singapore, with a destination of Egypt, in your own waters to create an environmental catastrophe! That will really show Israel!

    • Krono@lemmy.todayEnglish
      69·
      2 months ago

      If any tanker tried to defy US sanctions on Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea, or Russia it would be sunk the same way.

      • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        93·
        2 months ago

        If any tanker tried to defy US sanctions on Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea, or Russia it would be sunk the same way.

        Do you know what sanctions are?

        Do you realize that there are countless tankers going to ALL of those countries, at this very moment, and have been for decades?

        • Krono@lemmy.todayEnglish
          49·
          2 months ago

          Yes none of the current sanctions regimes constitute a complete embargo. That does not change the underlying logic that they are enforced by violence.

          • rbesfe@lemmy.caEnglish
            71·
            2 months ago

            Can you give an example of a time when any of those sanctions was enforced by violence?

            • Krono@lemmy.todayEnglish
              45·
              2 months ago

              Whenever someone is convicted of criminal export and trade sanction violations they are subject to 20 years in prison.

          • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
            64·
            2 months ago

            Yes none of the current sanctions regimes constitute a complete embargo. That does not change the underlying logic that they are enforced by violence.

            … so you don’t know what sanctions are. Or, for that matter, an embargo.

    • 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