Iran’s Presence in Yemen Poses a Strategic Threat to Israel
A ring of fire
January 10, 2020
Iran’s Presence in Yemen Poses a Strategic Threat to Israel
A ring of fire
As recent attacks on American positions in Iraq have shown, the Islamic Republic maintains a significant arsenal of rockets, which play an essential role in its military doctrine. And in typical fashion, the Iranian-made missiles that killed an American contractor on December 27 were fired by one of Tehran’s many proxy militias, which it has supplied amply with such weapons. The ayatollahs have also armed Hizballah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen with numerous missiles, some of them quite sophisticated. Their aim, writes Uzi Rubin, is to surround the Jewish state with a “ring of fire”:
January 10, 2020
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