{"id":23755,"date":"2018-11-30T00:25:25","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T00:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=23755"},"modified":"2018-11-30T00:25:25","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T00:25:25","slug":"us-presents-fresh-evidence-of-iranian-military-support-for-houthis-in-yemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=23755","title":{"rendered":"US presents fresh evidence of Iranian military support for Houthis in Yemen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1413121\/middle-east\" readability=\"53.8674188999\">\n<p>\nLONDON: Tehran&#8217;s support for the Houthi militia is a flagrant violation of security in the region, the\u00a0US special envoy for Iran\u00a0Brian Hook said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\nAt a briefing on\u00a0Iran&#8217;s transfer of arms to proxy groups and its ongoing missile development, Hook said Iran is seeking to supply its agents and militias in the\u00a0Middle East with more weapons.<\/p>\n<p>\nHook said Washington has fresh evidence of Iran&#8217;s involvement in supplying the Houthi militia with weapons, and that the time has come to\u00a0intensify\u00a0pressure on the Iranian regime.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\" readability=\"5.82242990654\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Special Representative for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a> Brian Hook: Imagine what <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Yemen?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Yemen<\/a> would look like with an entrenched Iranian presence. We know how this movie ends and we can&#8217;t watch a new version of Lebanese Hizballah slowly emerge in the Arabian Peninsula. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rN1DWGLsLx\">pic.twitter.com\/rN1DWGLsLx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Department of State (@StateDept) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StateDept\/status\/1068203726337241088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 29, 2018<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nThe special envoy said\u00a0sanctions\u00a0against Iran will continue until its behavior changes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\nHook added that Washington has fresh evidence of Iran&#8217;s involvement in supplying the Houthi militia with weapons, and that Iran\u2019s supply of weapons to its militias in the region is a threat to US forces.<\/p>\n<p>\nHook was speaking in front of a display of rockets, small arms and debris from an Iranian drone that he said were intended for the Houthis. Hook said\u00a0the material shows Iran is determined to send &#8220;even more weapons into the hands of even more of its proxies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Tehran&#8217;s support for the Houthi militia is a flagrant violation of security in the region, the\u00a0US special envoy for Iran\u00a0Brian Hook said Thursday. At a briefing on\u00a0Iran&#8217;s transfer of arms to proxy groups and its ongoing missile development, Hook said Iran is seeking to supply its agents and militias in the\u00a0Middle East with more&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":23756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}