Report: Iran Allegedly Guided Houthi Blitz on Yemen's Red Sea Coast
The Spin
Anti-Iran narrative
IRGC officers stood on Yemeni soil directing the blitz that handed the Houthis the Red Sea coast in under 48 hours, and pretending otherwise is willful blindness. Tehran supplied the missiles, drones, satellite intelligence and battlefield commanders that turned a stalled militia into a force choking Saudi oil exports. Indeed, the link between Iran and the Houthis must be broken at all cost to prevent further Houthi advances.
Pro-Iran narrative
Calling the Houthis an Iranian puppet is a comforting fiction that guarantees failure. Even U.S. spy agencies found no evidence that Tehran dictates their operations, and the group has openly defied Iranian pleas to de-escalate, built its own weapons from Chinese parts and struck unilateral cease-fires against Iran's wishes. Squeezing Tehran solves nothing when the decisions are made in Sanaa.
