The Iranian regime‘s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) and Lebanese Hezbollah are engaged in battles alongside Houthi rebels in Yemen, Arabic al-Mustaqbal newspaper reported on Saturday.
According to the daily, several members of Hezbollah have been killed since operation “Decisive Storm”, the coalition of Muslim countries led by Riyadh, began against the occupation of Yemen by forces funded and trained by the Iranian regime.
Sources told al-Mustaqbal daily that Hezbollah’s involvement in battles in Sanaa is “possible as several of its fighters and experts, who hold Lebanese nationality, were in Yemen’s Sanaa before the rebels seized swathes of territory in Yemen since they entered Sanaa last September”.
The relations between the IRGC’s Quds Force and Lebanese Hezbollah is far more than relations between a terrorist force and its proxy.
A report published on March 19 by an Iranian state-run news agency on the regime’s media campaign for Qassem Suleimani, the commander of the regime’s terrorist Quds Force, referred to Jihad Mughniyah, the son of notorious the Lebanese terror master and top commander of Hezbollah as a nephew of Quds Force commander Qassem Suleimani.
Earlier on Saturday, Reuters reported that the Yemenis fighting Houthi rebels in the southern Yemeni city of Aden said they captured two Iranian military officers during fighting on Friday evening.
The local Yemenis said they were from an elite unit of the Iranian regime’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC).
Three sources said the Iranian IRGC officers, identified as a colonel and a captain, were seized in two different districts that have been rocked with heavy gun battles.
“The initial investigation revealed that they are from the Quds Force and are working as advisors to the Houthi militia,” one of the sources told Reuters.
“They have been put in a safe place and we will turn them over to Decisive Storm to deal with them,” the source added.
Following its defeat in the Iran-Iraq war, since a quarter of a century ago, by drawing on its experience in shaping the Lebanese Hezbollah, the Iranian regime planned to take advantage of Yemen’s religious fabric to form a mercenary group in that country to be used as a spring board for its aggression against Yemen and the Arabian Peninsula.
The clerical regime decided that the al-Houthi Tribe is a suitable candidate to organize such a venture and thus started to employ them since that time.
