Alireza Jafarzadeh
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Thank you so much, Mike.
I've watched you both on this show, but also you appear on other shows.
And your analysis, your insight, your information is always very lively, you know, very informative.
And I'll be always very happy to participate in shows.
And thank you for what you're doing in informing the public.
It's 100%, to be honest with you, because the Houthis, also known as al-Sarallah, were actually a creation of Tehran. There were no Houthis some 25 years ago. And the father, Badreddin, along with two sons, Hossein and Abd al-Malik, they went to Iran, to Om, where the religious schools are there near Tehran.
And they spent at least one year in Qom, getting all kinds of trainings from then, and then came back to Yemen. First started as a sort of like a benign looking movement. They even participated in some parliamentary elections. And since 2004, the order came that now is the time and they got engaged into major confrontations with the central government there.
And since then, what is now known as the Houthis has become a creation of Tehran, both in terms of army. sponsoring, funding, providing guidance, intelligence, all kinds of training provided to them. And that's why, I mean, similar to Hezbollah in Lebanon, I would say this is like the Herald version of Hezbollah, and the names are pretty similar, Ansarallah and Hezbollah.
And their area of operation obviously is in Yemen, but they get a lot of their trainings, not necessarily in Yemen or not even not necessarily in Tehran or Iranian cities, rather some of that is provided to them in Lebanon or was provided to them in Lebanon by Hezbollah. Also, some of the trainings took place in Najaf, by the Iran regime's proxies, the Hashtag Shabia and others.
Well, I think what the regime was doing was basically nurturing them in the beginning because they had no real foundation. They had no real support there. So they wanted to give them some kind of a footing there. And then gradually this process turned them into an anti-American entity. That's the model they use in Lebanon and in other places around the world.
But also at the same time, Tehran fails. that the outside world is really not responding to the regime's terrorism. They have a pretty much free way to go. In Iraq, in 2003 was the invasion and then the regime managed to build an extensive structure in Iraq that within a few years, they were pretty much dominating.
And you may recall that in Iraq, the number one killer of American forces were what they called the EFPs, explosive before projectiles or penetrators, that penetrates through armor.
And I worked with Fox and we did a special in 2007, I think, about how these EFEs were being produced in Tehran and by the odds force shipped across the border, targeting the Americans and they were getting nothing in response. So the regime felt, okay, now we can get on the offensive because We're not getting any kind of, you know, we're not paying a price for it. So why not?
And that's why the order came to turn them into a more active anti-American entity.
Absolutely not, Mike. The Houthis, the way they are, would not even exist if it wasn't for the Iranian regime. The level of training, three years ago, we put out a report and held a press conference
right here in Washington detailing how the Iran regime had taken some of the Houthis to Iran near the Caspian Sea in a training camp to create what they call the naval terrorist group that they would be able to carry out terrorist attacks in the sea. And they trained them for several months, at least six months near Ramsar, near the Caspian Sea in Tehran, and then sent them back.
So when you see those attacks by the Houthis taking place at the Red Sea and also other targets, None of that would have happened without direct training, planning, intelligence, weapons, all of that coming from Tehran. And this is like the regular playbook of Tehran. They always deny all of that. They took hostages in Lebanon in the 80s and 90s.
They said, it wasn't us, but we can help you release those hostages. And then they get into negotiations and get money and resources and concessions. in order to have the hostages released. In all of those cases, the regime denies. Look at Syria. The regime had spent at least 100,000 of their forces there, including at least 20,000 Hezbollah, in order to keep Assad in power.
At least $50 billion was spent, and they considered Assad in Syria as a strategic debt. But when the time came and the whole thing collapsed in 11 days, thanks to the very weakening position of the regime in the region, then they said, well, it wasn't us. It was another country and too bad. And they say the same thing about Hezbollah and all of the others.
They said they're acting on their own, which in fact they aren't.
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