At least 90 Houthi rebel fighters are dead in just 24 hours of fighting after the latest push by the Iran-backed movement to take the Yemeni city of Marib from Saudi-backed government forces. Houthi officials claimed to control two-thirds of the oil-rich provincial capital, making it the last major population center in northern Yemen to come under rebel control.
Short and medium range Iranian missile batteries, like the one shown here, are believed to have been moved into Iraq last month, as well as exported to Hezbollah inside Syria and Libya, putting them within range of Israeli cities (Credit: ypa.ir)
The United States military is considering the deployment of several thousand more troops to the Middle East after intelligence revealed the alarming movement of Iranian missile batteries into Iraq last month. Many analysts believe that the Tehran regime is taking advantage of unrest across Shi'a Iraq to position missiles that could be used to more easily strike US bases, the Saudi Gulf states, and of course, Israel.
The Pentagon talks became public on the same day that the US State Department announced that it has documented evidence that the Iranian regime has murdered over 1,000 peaceful street protesters in the last month, including one incident caught on tape in which up to 100 fleeing protesters were surrounded and massacred in cold blood by security forces in trucks with automatic weapons.
The movement of Iranian missile batteries into Iraq fits a larger pattern of creeping Iranian aggression across the region. Just last week, a US Navy vessel interdicted an Iranian vessel transporting a "large cache" of sophisticated missile parts to Yemen, where Houthi rebels have been fighting a proxy war against the Saudi Kingdom on Iran's behalf for over five years.
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