Western report: Iran is fully reproducing itself in Yemen
English - Tuesday 30 March 2021 الساعة 10:18 am
Special translation, NewsYemen:
The European Eye Center, which specializes in studying terrorist groups, said that Iran's support for the Houthi militia, in Yemen, “is not merely a side hustle and a new fit to encircle Saudi Arabia,” explaining that Yemen is the main battlefield in Iran's export of the Ayatollah Khomeini revolution, the engine of all Iranian policies since the founding of The Islamic Republic.
In a recent report (consisting of 31 pages) prepared by Ovid Lobel, a senior political researcher and analyst at the Australian Affairs Council, specializing in geostrategic studies of Iran, Russia and Turkey in the Middle East, the center said, "The Houthis are far from being a local movement, they are an essential component." My membership in the Iranian Islamic Revolution and they have always been. "
The report said that Yemen is "the most important battle front against Iran's attempts to export its revolution today, especially after the latter failed to impose an exact copy of its religious system, in Iraq and Lebanon."
He said that Iran was able, for the first time since 1979, to completely reproduce itself without being bound by any democratic restrictions or dictatorships in place, as is the case in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and other places, which makes the Houthis the most successful Iranian experience in exporting its ideology so far.
He explained that the Houthis are not Zaidis, but rather a new Twelver movement that emerged from the Zaydi revival movement, which had arisen since 1979 and is acting entirely under the leadership and control of Iran.
"The relationship between the Houthis in Yemen and Iran has always been portrayed as a relatively recent Iranian side show that began in 2009 in response to Saudi Arabia's overt intervention against the Houthis in their wars with the Yemeni government," the report said.
He emphasized that there is a deep ideological relationship between Iran and the Houthis dating back to 1979, as Tehran has carefully taught the Houthi family and its partners, using it to orchestrate the ideological division in the Zaidi revival movement.
According to the center, the godfather of the Houthi movement, Badr al-Din al-Houthi, was a member of the delegation of Yemeni Shiite leaders who went to Iran in 1979, and then continued to return and study there throughout the eighties, and his relationship with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.
He stated, "During the 1980s, some Houthi leaders studied Iran's hard-line type of Shiites in the Qom religious school in the hope that they could emulate the methods used in the Iranian Islamic revolution at home in Yemen."
He noted that "the Young Believing Rebellion (the first name for the Houthi group) in 2004 was carefully planned for a long time and was part of Iran's wider regional offensive to encircle the region."
In 1982, the year Hezbollah was officially recognized for the first time as an organization in Lebanon, Houthi researcher Salah Ahmad Fellita (father of the current official spokesman for the Houthis, Muhammad Abdul Salam) established the first Iranian revolutionary movement in Yemen.
He pointed out that this movement developed into the Union (Union of Believing Youth) around 1986, and at this stage Badr al-Din returned from exile - probably from Iran - and became deeply involved in its activities.
The Believing Youth and Hussein Badr Al-Din Al-Houthi: 1990-2000
In addition to family trips to Iran - the report says - unknown Lebanese and Iraqi Shiites began traveling to Yemen to study in Houthi education centers and establish the Twelver Hussainiyas.
During these trips to Iran in the 1990s, according to Dr. Essam al-Emad, Hussein developed “deep and friendly relations with Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,” and absorbed all the ideas of Ruhollah Khomeini, Khamenei, and Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah.
Both Hussein and his brother Abdul-Malik settled in Iran's religious center, Qom, where Hussein called on the Islamic Republic and Hezbollah to be a model for Yemen, and wrote a book entitled "Iran in the Philosophy of Hussein Al-Houthi."
According to the American expert, Arash Azizi, Hussein traveled to Syria and Iran in the 1990s in search of establishing Hezbollah in Yemen - although the Iranians had not yet thought the time had come.
Meanwhile, during the 1990s, after the North-South Union, the Believing Youth Movement, with the help of another Houthi brother, Muhammad, and also associated with the Houthis, Muhammad Azzan, established “summer camps” for indoctrination. By 1994 it was accommodating more than 15,000 students.
The report said that the "Believing Youth Movement" was modeled after identical organizations bearing a name in Lebanon and Iran and became the main component of Hezbollah.
He noted that Hussein Al-Houthi carried out shuttle trips between Iran and Sudan in the 1990s, "allegedly to enhance his religious education," at a time when Sudan was the forward operating base for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
He went on to say: “Immediately upon his return to Yemen, Hussein al-Houthi, by order of Iran, established an official faction, which began in 1996 under the name“ Followers of the Slogan. ”The relevant slogan - the Houthi slogan today - is an expanded version of the Iranian slogan: The Khomeinist Scream. .
The European Eye Center concluded by saying, “An examination of Hussein’s lectures after his return in 2000 reveals an absolute obsession with the first Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, as well as his successor, Ali Khamenei, Nasrallah - and all he really cares about is fighting the states. And Israel. "
