Iran Guards say Saudi Arabia won’t be able to contain Yemen’s Houthis

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Iran’s Revolutionary Guards

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Iran’s Revolutionary Guards warned on Thursday that Saudi Arabia will not be able to contain the Tehran-backed Houthis in Yemen as the rebels ramp up attacks on the kingdom.

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“Saudi Arabia will certainly be unable to contain Yemen and Ansarullah or remain safe from their attacks,” Guards spokesman Hossein Mohebi told Defa Press, using another name for the Houthis.

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“As we have seen in recent days, the more Saudi Arabia attacks, the more it is hit in return.”

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Yemen last month became the latest front to open in the Middle East war that broke out on February 28 with US-Israeli strikes on Iran.

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The Houthi attacks and their attempt to blockade Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea ports came after tit-for-tat strikes in early July following the arrival of an Iranian plane in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa.

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Yemen has been embroiled in more than a decade of war and the latest fighting upended a 2022 truce with the Saudi-backed internationally-recognised government.

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This week, a Yemeni minister told AFP that the Houthi rebels were plotting to seize land along the Bab al-Mandab Strait, which would allow them to further threaten the vital shipping artery.

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Three Houthi military sources and a spokesman for the Yemeni government forces battling them near the waterway also told AFP the rebels are planning to advance south from their current territory.

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AFP

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