Iranian, Hezbollah advisers in Yemen directing Houthi attacks on shipping: sources

Commanders from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and Lebanon’s Hezbollah group are on the ground in Yemen helping to direct and oversee Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping, four regional and two Iranian sources tell Reuters.

Iran – which has armed, trained and funded the Houthis – stepped up its weapons supplies to the group in the wake of the war in Gaza, which erupted after Iranian-backed terrorists Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, the four regional sources said.

Tehran has provided advanced drones, anti-ship cruise missiles, precision-strike ballistic missiles and medium-range missiles to the Houthis, who started targeting commercial vessels in November in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, the sources says.

IRGC commanders and advisers are also providing know-how, data and intelligence support to determine which of the dozens of vessels traveling through the Red Sea each day are destined for Israel and constitute Houthi targets, all the sources say.