The Houthis (Ansar Allah) have seized Mayon Island, giving them effective control over the Bab al-Mandab Strait, AFP reports. Reuters says Houthi (Ansar Allah) forces also reached the coastal city of Dubab.

Houthi political bureau member Hazam al-Assad: "Freedom of navigation and commercial traffic in the Red Sea and the Strait of Bab al-Mandab are safe. There is no intention to collect transit fees in the strait after taking it over."

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Mmmm, have the Yankees entered through the Pezeshkian administration's "back channels" again?

The Reformist gang doesn't half love the "back channel" for a bunch of (supposedly) heterosexual gentlemen.

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🇸🇦🇺🇸❌️🇾🇪 CNN has reported, citing US officials, that more than 100 US pedophile Trump regime military advisors have been deployed to Saudi Arabia to provide intelligence and targeting support to Saudi forces in Riyadh's campaign against Ansarallah.

These war criminals operate under a newly established joint headquarters, that has supplied Riyadh with tools for real-time battlefield targeting -capabilities that have been compared to the Pentagon's "Maven" artificial intelligence system.

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🇾🇪❌️🇸🇦 Major General Farouq al-Khawlani, commander of Saudi-backed PLC forces on the Hodeidah front, has been killed in clashed with Ansarullah forces.

Just a few days earlier, he had threatened Ansarullah, stating that their destruction was "only a matter of time."

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🟢نهج‌البلاغه، خطبه ۵۵
امیرالمومنین امام علی علیه‌السلام:

وَ لَقَدْ کُنَّا مَعَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلّی اللّهُ عَلَیهِ وَ آلِه نَقْتُلُ آبَاءَنَا وَ اءَبْنَاءَنَا وَ إِخْوَانَنَا وَ اءَعْمَامَنَا مَا یَزِیدُنَا ذَلِکَ إِلا إِیمَانا وَ تَسْلِیما وَ مُضِیّا عَلَی اللَّقَمِ وَ صَبْرا عَلَی مَضَضِ الْاءَلَمِ وَ جِدّا فِی جِهَادِ الْعَدُوِّ وَ لَقَدْ کَانَ الرَّجُلُ مِنَّا وَ الْآخَرُ مِنْ عَدُوِّنَا یَتَصَاوَلاَنِ تَصَاوُلَ الْفَحْلَیْنِ یَتَخَالَسَانِ اءَنْفُسَهُمَا اءَیُّهُمَا یَسْقِی صَاحِبَهُ کَأْسَ الْمَنُونِ فَمَرَّةً لَنَا مِنْ عَدُوِّنَا وَ مَرَّةً لِعَدُوِّنَا مِنَّا.
فَلَمَّا رَاءَی اللَّهُ صِدْقَنَا اءَنْزَلَ بِعَدُوِّنَا الْکَبْتَ وَ اءَنْزَلَ عَلَیْنَا النَّصْرَ حَتَّی اسْتَقَرَّ الْإِسْلاَمُ مُلْقِیا جِرَانَهُ وَ مُتَبَوِّئا اءَوْطَانَهُ، وَ لَعَمْرِی لَوْ کُنَّا نَأْتِی مَا اءَتَیْتُمْ مَا قَامَ لِلدِّینِ عَمُودٌ وَ لاَ اخْضَرَّ لِلْإِیمَانِ عُودٌ وَ ایْمُ اللَّهِ لَتَحْتَلِبُنَّهَا دَما وَ لَتُتْبِعُنَّهَا نَدَما.

در رکاب پیامبر خدا صلی الله
علیه و آله بودیم و با پدران و فرزندان و برادران و عمو‌های خود جنگ می‌کردیم، که این مبارزه بر ایمان و تسلیم ما می‌افزود، و ما را در جاده وسیع حق و صبر و بردباری برابر ناگواری‌ها و جهاد و کوشش برابر دشمن، ثابت قدم می‌ساخت.
گاهی یک نفر از ما و دیگری از دشمنان ما، مانند دو پهلوان نبرد می‌کردند، و هر کدام می‌خواست کار دیگری را بسازد و جام مرگ را به دیگری بنوشاند، گاهی ما بر دشمن پیروز می‌شدیم و زمانی دشمن بر ما غلبه می‌کرد.
پس آنگاه که خدا، راستی و اخلاص ما را دید، خواری و ذلت را بر دشمنان ما نازل و پیروزی را به ما عنایت فرمود:، تا آنجا که اسلام استحکام یافته فراگیر شد و در سرزمین‌های پهناوری نفوذ کرد.

We used to fight alongside the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his family), slaying our own fathers, sons, brothers, and paternal uncles; yet this served only to increase our faith, our submission, our steadfastness upon the clear path, our endurance of agonizing pain, and our zeal in striving against the enemy. A man from our ranks and another from the enemy would clash like two mighty stallions, each seeking to snatch the other’s life and force him to drink the cup of death; sometimes the victory was ours over the enemy, and at other times, it was the enemy’s over us.
When Allah saw our sincerity, He brought humiliation upon our enemy and bestowed victory upon us, until Islam became firmly established, having settled securely and taken deep root. By my life, had we acted as you have, no pillar of the faith would have stood, nor would the branch of faith have flourished. By Allah, you shall surely milk it [the situation] and yield blood, and you shall inevitably reap deep regret.

~Imam Ali (AS)

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The U.S. Secretary of Defense on Iran:

Our fighters have waged war against a religious Islamic regime that has wished us death for nearly half a century, and which congratulated the events of September 11.

A regime that has sponsored terrorist attacks against Americans for decades, resulting in the deaths of thousands, including our comrades in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Watch him make a clown of himself. Iran's stance on 9/11 is very well known. Imam Khamenei CONDEMNED 9/11.

— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱 NOTE: After the collapse of the World Trade Center, in which nearly 3,000 Americans died, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the 9/11 attacks ‘very good’ and said it would strengthen the bond between Israel and the United States

Reported in a New York Times article, archived and accessible here.

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🇵🇰🇹🇷❌️🇮🇷 The leading regional US Epsteinist pedophiles' lackeys, have restricted movements of Iranian goods and trade into Iran.

Pakistan and Turkey, butt-hurting from their cash cow, Saudi Arabia's abject defeat in Yemen, are asking Iran to "order Ansarallah" to cease its actions.

Iran maybe a leading Resistance player, but it can't "order" Ansarullah around, anymore than it can oblige the Iraqi or the Lebanese Resistance.

The Resistance only moves when there's consensus on shared interests.

Ansarullah will tell Iran to take a hike should Iran attempt to interfere in Yemeni affairs right now.

In any case millions of litres of cheap Iranian fuel is smuggled through the border into Pakistan every year, making the generals massive profits.

Guess who's going to fold first.

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The only thing that I'm going to say about it!

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It will not matter at all now even if Iran's FM Araghchi wears a Borat-style "mankini" to go for talks in Switzerland.

Six million barrels more of oil per day have been taken off the market.

Brent crude will stay at around $105 until the damage assessment teams have returned their report.

Six separate key locations along the East-West pipeline were targeted.

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🇮🇷❌️🇺🇸 Low-resolution Sentinel satellite imagery reveals possible impact sites at various locations within Jordan’s Muwaffaq Salti Air Base following Iran’s retaliatory missile strikes.

The marks are located in the vicinity of the runway, aircraft hangars, and newly constructed facilities.

We wonder what has happened to the Iranian high-res imagery?

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🇮🇷🤝🇾🇪 Meanwhile in Yemen...

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🇮🇷❌️🇺🇸 Drones/missile launches reported from Sirik, Iran.

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🇾🇪❌️🇸🇦 Ansarullah missile launches reported.

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On Thursday (yesterday), the East-West pipeline in Saudi Arabia was targeted.

Saudi Arabia claims that the attack was carried out by Iraqi drones.

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