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🇮🇷🤝🇾🇪 Reuters citing anonymous sources reports that Iran sent a dozen IRGC commanders to Yemen to "guide" the Ansarallah/Houthi forces in their battle against the Presidential Leadership Council (PLC) and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA)

📝: Reuters has a poor track record with its anonymous sources on anything related to Iran, the IRGC and their operations in the Middle East (see the story about the false IRGC warning against Israel capturing a ridge in Lebanon) and this appears to be a cope attempting to justify the embarrassing defeat the PLC suffered at the hands of the Houthis, who unlike the PLC, are under an economic blockade since 2014 and have to locally produce and smuggle every weapon and missile component they use.

The PLC meanwhile enjoys unconditional financial support from Saudi Arabia who has been arming it, providing it with Sudanese mercenaries and paying the salaries of its troops since 2015 and has nothing to show for, proving once again that ideological/religious zeal will defeat any enemy no matter how much more better equipped and paid they are.

While it is possible that the IRGC had advisors present in Houthi territory, their role was minor. The PLC is notoriously dysfunctional and the various brigades pledging allegiance to Rashad al-Alimi, the president of the PLC. The brigades supporting the Southern Transitional Council have not all been disarmed and occasional clashes still occur between the STC remnants and other PLC factions (The PLC is backed by the KSA while the STC was backed by the UAE).

The Houthis are united and determined while the PLC is comprised of various factions split among the unionists (Tariq Saleh's forces, Tihamah Resistance, Security Belt Forces, Al Islah Party's millitia) and the separatists/Southern Movement (STC remnants, Giants Brigades) which are staying united solely because the Houthis exist and even then they still clash with each other.

While the Houthis enjoy Iranian support, they are not politically controlled by Tehran and are practically independent, with their own goals and agendas unlike the Iraqi Shiite militias who answer to IRGC Quds Force commanders. The Houthis did not choose to reactivate the Yemeni Civil War, the KSA did when it tried to prevent a Houthi delegation from attending the funeral of Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei and bombed the Sana'a airport. The loss of the Red Sea coast by the PLC can be entirely blamed on the Saudi monarchy.

🔗 https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iranian-arms-advice-helped-yemens-houthis-seize-key-red-sea-city-sources-say-2026-09-10/

🛢 WTI Crude price has climbed back up to $103/barrel for the first time since May 19th.

Brent Crude prices have climbed back up to $108/barrel for the first time since May 19th. Both crude oil benchmarks are getting close to their peaks during the active phase of the 3rd Gulf War in March-April.

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