📰 1 source 8 articles · 3 Nov 2026, 16:15 → 10 days ago

Yemeni Interior Ministry says 21 IRGC and Hezbollah experts are backing the Houthis

Yemen's Interior Ministry in the internationally recognized government announced that 21 experts from Iran's Revolutionary Guard and Hezbollah are taking part in managing and supporting the Houthi militia's military operations, distributed across six Yemeni governorates including Sanaa, Saada and Hodeidah, with specialties covering operations management, command and control, and training on striking ships. Hours later, the head of Yemen's Presidential Leadership Council accused the Revolutionary Guard of taking part in managing the Houthis' war, and the Foreign Ministry condemned what it called flagrant interventions.

📍 Where things stand: The story rests on a series of successive Yemeni official announcements, the latest being the Foreign Ministry's condemnation of Iranian and Hezbollah interference, with no public responses from Tehran or Hezbollah reported in the available coverage.

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3 Nov 2026, 16:15 Yemen's Interior Ministry announced that 21 experts from Iran's Revolutionary Guard and Hezbollah are taking part in managing and supporting the Houthi militia's military operations, in a direct accusation against Tehran and Hezbollah of interfering in the Yemeni conflict.
3 Nov 2026, 16:20 The Yemeni Interior Ministry said the experts are distributed across six Yemeni governorates, with their deployment including Sanaa, Saada and Hodeidah, without further details on the experts' identities or the nature of their tasks.
3 Nov 2026, 16:24 The Yemeni Interior Ministry announced that the specialties of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and Hezbollah experts in Yemen include operations management, command and control.
3 Nov 2026, 16:24 Lebanon Debate quoted the Yemeni Interior Ministry as saying that Iranian Revolutionary Guard and Hezbollah experts are training the Houthis to strike ships, without further details on the location or timing of the training or the nature of the targeting.
3 Nov 2026, 16:32 According to the article's headline, the Yemeni Interior Ministry published a deployment map comprising 7 from Hezbollah and 14 from the Revolutionary Guard, with no further details in the available text.
3 Nov 2026, 18:06 The head of Yemen's Presidential Leadership Council accused Iran's Revolutionary Guard of taking part in managing the Houthi militia's war, saying this comes to compensate for the losses of Iran's proxies.
3 Nov 2026, 19:25 Yemen's Foreign Ministry condemned the continuation of what it described as the flagrant interventions of Iran's Revolutionary Guard and Hezbollah in Yemen's internal affairs.