Al-Razami.. From a sheikh of the tribe to a slave of the Houthi dynasty
English - Saturday 11 February 2023 الساعة 08:07 am
Sanaa, NewsYemen, Muhammad Yahya:
In the mid-1980s, Abdullah Aida Al-Razami and his companion, Hussein Badr Al-Din Al-Houthi, were visiting Iran - via Syria - for the first time, to get to know the Khomeinist revolution closely.
Nearly a decade after his first visit, Al-Razami will re-visit Iran alone this time, to join the spiritual father of the Houthis, "Badr Al-Din Al-Houthi" and his sons, who took temporary refuge in Iran in 1994 after they left Saada, following the doctrinal differences that escalated between them and the Zaidi scholars, due to their adoption. Extremist ideas that contradict the Zaydi sect
While they are in Iran, Abdullah Al-Razami and his companion Hussein Al-Houthi will study in the seminaries of the city of Qom, and the two men will return after the leaders of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard managed to attract and recruit them to serve its project in Yemen, to establish an armed militia in Saada governorate.
The sheikh, who belongs to the "Razamat" clan, in the Nashur district of the Safra district of Saada governorate, has great loyalty to the priest Badr al-Din al-Houthi and his son Hussein, whose views are inspired by the Khomeinist revolution's rhetoric. The Khomeinist cry launched by the leader of the mullahs' revolution in Iran in the late seventies of the last century.
Sheikh Al-Razami is the second man in establishing the Houthi movement, and he is also the founder of the "Al-Anwar Al-Muhammadiyya" camp, to which he included a number of members of his "Razamat" tribe to defend the Al-Houthi family. Many of those who were trained inside this camp were killed early in the Saada rebellion.
In 2004, Al-Razami, along with his companion Hussein Al-Houthi, ignited the first spark for the Saada rebellion, and Al-Razami was the military and field commander of the Houthi militia in the first rebellion, and after the death of his companion Hussein, he ignited the second rebellion in Al-Razamat, but he was removed from the scene, after the appointment of Badr Al-Din Al-Houthi and his son, "Abdul-Malik." A leader of the militia to succeed his fallen brother, Al-Razami did not participate in the rebellion wars led by "Abdul-Malik", and he remained with his supporters in a confined area in Saada, raising pictures of Hussein Al-Houthi.
Al-Razami disappeared for years, but his name reappeared in the battles of abuse of the Salafists in Dammaj Saada, the battles of "Al-Osaimat" with the Amran tribes in 2015, and in the terrorist attacks on the Saudi-Yemeni border in 2016.
And with former President Ali Abdullah Saleh's call for a comprehensive popular uprising against the Houthi militia in late 2017, the name Al-Razami reappeared, after he and his son "Yahya" came to the aid of the Houthis, at the head of two thousand armed men from the "Razamat" tribe, after most of the Houthi militants fled from The capital, fearing popular revenge, following the resounding defeats of the Houthi militia, despite the small number of fighters of Saleh's supporters.
At that time, Al-Razami redistributed his forces in the neighborhoods of the capital, Sana'a, and its surroundings, under the leadership of his son Yahya. The militia, with the support of the large number of gunmen led by Al-Razami, managed to put down the Sana'a uprising and regain control of the capital, two days after most of its neighborhoods and locations fell into the hands of Saleh's supporters.
During the years of his disappearance from the scene, Al-Razami was establishing armed ideological brigades, which he called "Al-Razamiyun", also known as the "Hamedan-Saada Axis" and called "Death Brigades". He handed over its leadership to his son, Yahya, while he turned into a religious preacher to his supporters, telling them about the dignity of his master, Badr al-Din al-Houthi, and the distinctive scent of his radiance!!
After the Houthi coup against the state, Iran sought to establish extremist combat teams and brigades within the Houthi militia, and the "Death Brigades" was one of the most prominent of these combat teams. It is managed and training in the shadows by officers from the "Quds Force" in Yemen, as it enjoys military training that is superior to all other Houthi formations, and is considered one of the most important arms of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, in waging fateful battles to prevent the collapse of the Houthi fronts.
