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September 10, 2026
Iran Open Thread 2026-198
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Midday update.
WTI 102
Brent 107
10 year Treasury 4.92
Houthi routing Saudi, establishing control over Bad al Mandab
Posted by: oldhippie | Sep 10 2026 16:20 utc | 1
Houthis capture Mocha !
Guardian:
“Yemen’s Houthi rebels are making a concerted drive to take full control of the country’s Red Sea coast, claiming control of the key port of Mocha, in the most serious wave of fighting with the Saudi-backed government in years.
Seizure of the coast would be a strategic disaster for Saudi Arabia and the US, taking Iran and its proxies closer to full control of two chokepoints for western shipping on opposite sides of the Arabian peninsula: the Bab al-Mandeb at the southern end of the Red Sea and the strait of Hormuz in the Gulf.”
Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Sep 10 2026 16:21 utc | 2
Iran is to Russia as Ukraine is to USA.
Ukraine gives the USA plausible denial when attacking Russia; Iran gives Russia plausible denial when attacking USA.
Posted by: The Far Side | Sep 10 2026 16:23 utc | 3
Iran is to Russia as Ukraine is to USA. Ukraine gives the USA plausible denial when attacking Russia; Iran gives Russia plausible denial when attacking USA.
Posted by: The Far Side | Sep 10 2026 16:23 utc | 3
Nonsense.
Posted by: arby | Sep 10 2026 16:39 utc | 4
In direct association with offered topics (Iran, Ukraine, and the rest of the world) there is a paradigm and a historical constant given through a very interesting idea of the ancient ‘atomic bomb’.
It can be found in subsection 5 of the essay titled:
“Is there a deeper symbolism in Nolan’s interpretation of Homer’s epic?”
on the URL
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/412302143_Aspects_of_symbolism_in_present_cinematic_interpretation_of_the_Odyssey
For illustration, just a few passages:
“There is a parallel with previous Nolan’s film ‘Oppenheimer’ . . . . . . . So did Odysseus with his deception materialised in the Trojan horse. Horses were very important and sacred symbols in the Trojan culture. In the case of Troy, the wooden horse is technology but what is more important and what makes this technology powerful and devastating is the idea standing behind: the abuse of sincere beliefs of Trojans, its beliefs in gods, not expecting that someone could dare to disrespect thier common gods and sacred symbols at such extent. Namely that was the essence of destructive power of Trojan horse if considered as a weapon. It means that ideological weapons are always more powerful than material ones. It is purely Odysseus invention because only he succeeded in destroying Troy, for what the mighty Agamemnon spent 10 years in vain. Similarly, Oppenheimer by its scientific, managerial and even political abilities enabled destruction of Japanese cities and the defeat of Japan.. . . . Reversing the parallel with the ‘Oppenheimer’ one could ask is Odysseus’ deception and its effect a kind of ancient ‘atomic bomb’? Is the power of that antiquity ‘bomb’ in the physical demolition or rather in the abuse of morals and beliefs, when the main laws that make a human human are put under question and misused. ‘Nuclear’ might of that antic ‘bomb’ relies on the spreading of that fraud throughout (as a plague) the world at that time and the establishment of lawlessness, conveyed by the so-called ‘people from the sea’, another expression frequently repeated in the film. ”
There are also some other interesting interpretations of Nolan’s interpretation of Homer’s epic.
Posted by: S-RB | Sep 10 2026 16:54 utc | 6
Posted by: The Far Side | Sep 10 2026 16:23 utc | 3
Nope.
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Sep 10 2026 16:55 utc | 7
😀 For Mocha! Mocha-choca-latte for everyone, courtesy Lady Marmalade!
/puts tiny plastic cocktail saber on my head and cheeps rapidly while gyrating
Posted by: titmouse | Sep 10 2026 16:58 utc | 8
The island of Zuhar in the Red Sea has also been captured. Thus, if the Saudis do nothing, Iran and the Axis of Resistance will have full control over two key shipping arteries that are used to transport Saudi oil.
Meanwhile, the stampede of retreating Saudi mercenaries is gaining momentum. The vanguard of the fleeing troops has almost reached Aden, where they are blocked by Emirati-oriented mercenaries.
@Boris_rozhin
Posted by: MiniMO | Sep 10 2026 17:07 utc | 9
DW: Nima R Alkhorshid: ‘A Fractured Middle East’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0jTY4ee6tw
“Inside the collapse – the Middle East just broke and leaders are hiding.”
Radhika Desai: Mohammad Marandi: ‘Trump Has No Way Out’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUZ8JQt4qiA
“The US has only three ways out of this war and Iran controls two of them.”
Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 10 2026 17:14 utc | 10
Houthis
captureliberateMocha !
Fixed it for u
Posted by: Amalek (ne Exile) | Sep 10 2026 17:21 utc | 11
Moral Resistance: IRAN WAR UPDATE: IRAN TAKE OUT 8 F-15 FIGHTER JETS, 4 BLACK HAWKS & A-10, ANSARALLAH CONTROL YEMEN
Suleiman is beside himself…
Posted by: ChatNPC | Sep 10 2026 17:30 utc | 12
The Cradle, Ep 263: ‘The US Loses Another Strait’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWKYYc3Gi7s
“After Hormuz, Bab al-Mandeb slips from US control.”
The Electronic Intifada Livestream: Day 1070
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4ZxH_kCXTU
“Iran strikes back at sea. Breaking news and analysis on Day 1070 of the Genocide.”
Death To USrael & Empire – Victory to Iran and The Resistance – Free Palestine!
Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 10 2026 17:36 utc | 13
As long as the direct link works(t is posted multiple places, most the direct link it plays better though) https://s1.cdnstatic.space/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/gf.mp4 . This is a video of fighting to the NE, Al Jawf area, when Saudi backed forces attempted to attack, shows one part of what in some places was called at least a 20 mile line of contact. This video shows the attack being repelled, captured equipment(larger weapons than the Ansar Allah started with).
To the southwest, the “combat” videos mostly showed traffic jams of the Saudi backed forces retreating, while the Ansar Allah videos are them literally racing through the areas, some with music blaring, like Fast and Furious or Grand Theft City. Apparently large amounts of equipment captured, along with intact strongholds. It appears that the Saudi backed forces are still in full rout, and continuing fallback areas are starting to get where there has been “coalition” infighting. Reports around of possibly other infighting, or breaking down of the different factions working together because lack of support and communication. Positions abandoned, where the equipment left behind was then used against people who did not get the withdraw orders. Possibly the islands in the Red Sea have been taken, or at least attacked on the ground.
Dunno if I want to post any of the videos I’ve seen of them dropping dumb bombs from drones before the main hostilities started, while the Saudi backed forces were trying to accumulate. Some parts of them at least look a bit computer generated. If they are not, then lots was blown up before it really kicked off by mortar rounds dropped from drones.
Posted by: Rhymerez | Sep 10 2026 17:42 utc | 14
Victory parade in Mokha, greeted as liberators.
https://t.me/EurasianChoice/66997# https://t.me/RezistanceTrench1/70672# and some airport fun. https://t.me/EurasianChoice/66996#
Posted by: Rhymerez | Sep 10 2026 17:50 utc | 15
https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/36586#
Middle East Spectator — MES
—❗️🇾🇪/🇸🇦 BREAKING: Ansarallah forces have landed on Mayun Island (Perim Island), known as the ‘Pearl of Bab Al-Mandab’
It sits right between Yemen and Djibouti on the narrowest part of the Strait. The Island houses an Emirati airbase (non-operational) and was rumored to have an Israeli presence.
Clashes are currently still ongoing.
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https://x.com/MenchOsint/status/2098033611098190194
MenchOsint @MenchOsint
Brent crude oil hits $105 a barrel, likely following latest developments in Yemen.
Posted by: michaelj72 | Sep 10 2026 18:05 utc | 17
ChatNPC | Sep 10 2026 17:56 utc | 16
I meant to give a warning, but it is not worse than many posted, and some of the gore is censored out, but still a bunch of dead bodies around when they evaluate the battlefield. There are reasons that people equate ink the Houthi to the Fremen. A little premature, but will they stop at the borders?
Posted by: Rhymerez | Sep 10 2026 18:11 utc | 18
see the photo at the first link
https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/36609#
Middle East Spectator — MES
— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇧🇭 U.S. Navy Secretary Hung Cao in an interview:
‘The Iranians blew the hell out of Bahrain. There is no place for the U.S. Navy to dock. We have a task force looking at whether to abandon the facility [NSA Bahrain].’
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https://x.com/MenchOsint/status/2098110143640588352
MenchOsint @MenchOsint
⭕️ Saudi Arabia threatens (via its mercenaries) to use any means available and aviation to bomb Ansarallah forces in Al Mokha.
This will not end well for Aramco …
Posted by: michaelj72 | Sep 10 2026 18:20 utc | 19
Moral Resistance: Ali Alizadeh: ‘Iran Takes Out US Sail Drone’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V7NJlNfUy4
“Iran hit US sail-drone in Strait of Hormuz & on fire; Ansarallah winning.”
Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 10 2026 18:47 utc | 20
Hooray for Ansarallah!
But, now they are exposed and extended.
I hope they have a plan to defend against a sudden mobilisation of USraelian forces and their various vassals and lackeys.
So what’s it going to be, Mr. Trump?… Another failed war over another strait?
Double Down or Surrender?
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Sep 10 2026 19:03 utc | 21
Ya Hya Chouhada!
Down with the House of Harkonnen!
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Sep 10 2026 19:07 utc | 22
Ya Hya Chouhada!
Down with the House of Harkonnen!
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Sep 10 2026 19:07 utc | 22
Reminds me of our old pal, Love Donbass.
I hope that old devil is doing well.
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Sep 10 2026 19:42 utc | 24
So what’s it going to be, Mr. Trump?… Another failed war over another strait?
Double Down or Surrender?
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Sep 10 2026 19:03 utc | 21
If I know Trumptard and his Zio handlers, I’m going to say double down until a great depression and WW3. Then they’ll attack the wage slaves domestically to recoup their losses.
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Sep 10 2026 19:44 utc | 25
Reminds me of our old pal, Love Donbass. I hope that old devil is doing well.
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Sep 10 2026 19:42 utc | 24
Saw him commenting on Indi.ca
https://indi.ca/the-iran-war-gets-hot-again-sep-sitrep/
Posted by: arby | Sep 10 2026 19:55 utc | 26
https://t.me/syriankhabar/59139# Reportedly the UAE sponsored mercs that hold the area are telling that the Saudi backed mercs and militias have to disarm to continue to flee the west coast to go to Aden.Almost looks like it’s time for Yemen to get it’s own thread. It is western backed propaganda that they are just Iran backed proxy forces, though enemies in the region overlap.
Side note, I have not seen anything indicating that the US is moving anything in the direction to support, guess they cannot afford any more “laundry fires”.
Posted by: Rhymerez | Sep 10 2026 19:58 utc | 27
p.s. Coffee drink Mocha is named after the now houthi controlled Yemeni city.
Posted by: UWDude | Sep 10 2026 20:06 utc | 28
In the past couple of days the Yemeni Armed Forces, often purposely labelled as the Houthis or Iran’s proxy instead of acknowledging the true Yemeni nation by Western media, has driven out the Saudi proxies and mercenaries out of the strategic foothold of the Bab el Mandab waterway.
The tribes that used to support the Saudis and Emiratis have changed their allegiance. The PLC commander has submitted his resignation blaming betrayal amongst the ranks that has led to unsustainable losses.
Video on the last thread showed 3 brigades surrendering en masse.
I wonder how much of these has to do with funds from the Saudis and Emirates drying up?
The US has still not responded to the last rounds of hits sustained.
Posted by: Suresh | Sep 10 2026 20:19 utc | 29
Double Down or Surrender?
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Sep 10 2026 19:03 utc | 21
For me, that poses a question:
What, exactly, has the US got left to “double down” with? The carrier fleet is both stretched and found to be largely ineffective; US military bases in the region have become a target-rich environment for drones and missiles.
No naval capacity, no land-based capacity, all they’ve got left is long-range air bombing from B-52s, B-1s and B-2s.
That isn’t doubling down, it is futile flailing.
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Sep 10 2026 20:25 utc | 30
Posted by: Suresh | Sep 10 2026 20:19 utc | 29
The Houthi are not the Yemen nation. They are the west yemen nation. Just like the saudi backed government is not the government of Yemen, it is the government of East Yemen. That is the REALITY.
Posted by: UWDude | Sep 10 2026 20:26 utc | 31
https://x.com/MoloWarMonitor/status/2098024649309175886
MoloMonitor 🇮🇹 @MoloWarMonitor
According to my sources, Ansarallah Yemeni Armed Forces are attempting a landing operation on Perim Island, in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.
This island also hosts an Emirati air base, to which Israel had also been granted access in the past.
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https://x.com/ejmalrai/status/2098072809238856174
Elijah J. Magnier 🇪🇺 @ejmalrai
Iran and its allies are improving their positions. The turn of Lebanon won’t be long. Patience is a virtue
Posted by: michaelj72 | Sep 10 2026 20:29 utc | 32
Posted by: UWDude | Sep 10 2026 20:26 utc | 31
Thanks Dude.
The way to look at it is one has over 80% of the population support, the other the rest.
Which one would you label as the real Yemen?
Posted by: Suresh | Sep 10 2026 20:32 utc | 33
Not Pakis or Turks, but ta da………Yanks!
Telegram: View @intelslava
Posted by: Suresh | Sep 10 2026 20:33 utc | 34
That isn’t doubling down, it is futile flailing.
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Sep 10 2026 20:25 utc | 30
Indeed.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Sep 10 2026 20:38 utc | 35
I hope that old devil is doing well.
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Sep 10 2026 19:42 utc | 24
I imagine her blood pressure is much better these days.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Sep 10 2026 20:39 utc | 36
Thanks Dude. The way to look at it is one has over 80% of the population support, the other the rest. Which one would you label as the real Yemen?
Posted by: Suresh | Sep 10 2026 20:32 utc | 33
It is split in a civil war. Guaido is not the president of Venezuela. reality determines who the government is, and right now, there is no “true” Yemeni government.
Posted by: UWDude | Sep 10 2026 20:41 utc | 37
Mocha is named after the now houthi controlled Yemeni city.
Posted by: UWDude | Sep 10 2026 20:06 utc | 28
And this is why it’s essential the Houthi take the city!
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Sep 10 2026 20:41 utc | 38
Then they’ll attack the wage slaves domestically to recoup their losses.
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Sep 10 2026 19:44 utc | 25
The impoverishment of American civilians is the plan.
Who else would they otherwise draft into their armies to die for israel?
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Sep 10 2026 20:44 utc | 39
for your info, re: Ras Tanura, Saudi Arabia
Location: Situated on a peninsula extending into the Persian Gulf, north of Dammam and south of Jubail.
Function: Serves as a primary operations center and export terminal for Saudi Aramco, housing the largest and oldest oil refinery in the country.
Capacity: The refinery processes roughly 550,000 barrels of crude oil per day.
https://x.com/MenchOsint/status/2098123217248383251
MenchOsint @MenchOsint
In response to the Saudi threat to carpet bombing Al Mokha, Ansarallah politburo member points the finger at Ras Tanura, which is 1,300km away from Sana’a, 500km from Iraq.
Posted by: michaelj72 | Sep 10 2026 20:51 utc | 40
@31 UWDude.
This division between South and North Yemen is an artificial remnant of the Cold War.
Posted by: Soviético | Sep 10 2026 21:11 utc | 42
The way to look at it is one has over 80% of the population support, the other the rest. Which one would you label as the real Yemen?
Posted by: Suresh | Sep 10 2026 20:32 utc | 33 As in the video posted earlier, they were welcomed in Mocha as liberators. Who were holding it before were mercenaries, paid by Saudi, not even Yemen. They also showed in the NE a punisher hat, and obviously other western merc objects. Mercs that keep the Saudi backed government in place are not even from Yemen. A government, only kept in place(for the moment) by foreign mercs is not a legitimate government of a country. Not to mention that the merc backed “government” has not held the capitol of the country for more than a decade. Is looking like soon they will not even hold the unconstitutional capitol the Saudi proxy government moved to in Aden.The president that resigned with the rebellion was put in by an obvious sham of a vote to begin with. You will have a hard time making an argument that the Saudi/western backed government actually has any legitimacy, or ever had.
Posted by: Rhymerez | Sep 10 2026 21:14 utc | 43
https://x.com/MenchOsint/status/2098152633693327630
MenchOsint @MenchOsint
⭕️ BIG.
Yemen’s Ansarallah possibly struck the East-West pipeline at several points, this morning, and later this evening.
NASA FIRMS detected fire less than an hour ago, and satelite image showed a significant plume of black smoke over the south of Medina.
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https://edition.cnn.com/2026/09/10/politics/us-military-support-saudi-arabia-houthi-iran-yemen
EXCLUSIVE: US expands intel, targeting support for Saudi campaign against Iranian ally
More than 100 US military advisers are on the ground in Saudi Arabia providing intelligence and targeting support to the Kingdom in its military campaign against the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen, multiple sources familiar with the effort say. The assistance comes as fighting on the peninsula intensifies and risks spilling into open war with the Houthis, threatening a second major shipping corridor out of the Middle East……
…..The US is sharing intelligence with Saudi Arabia — as it routinely does already — but it is not participating directly in strikes. The US is also not helping refuel Saudi warplanes or providing other operational support, as it has in past fighting with the Houthis……
….US officials believe there are currently hundreds of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps officers in Yemen, working alongside the Houthis with goal of ultimately shutting down the Bab-el-Mandeb strait, which connects the Red Sea to the Indian Ocean, one of the US officials told CNN.
CNN previously reported that Iran had been plotting an economic “nuclear option” if negotiations with the US fall apart: getting the Houthis to close that key waterway……
Posted by: michaelj72 | Sep 10 2026 21:21 utc | 44
@31 UWDude.This division between South and North Yemen is an artificial remnant of the Cold War.
Posted by: Soviético | Sep 10 2026 21:11 utc | 42
The division was put in place prior to that through the Aden Protectorate:
The Aden Protectorate (Arabic: محمية عدن Maḥmiyyat ‘Adan) was a British protectorate in southern Arabia. The protectorate evolved in the hinterland of the port of Aden and in the Hadhramaut after the conquest of Aden by the Bombay Presidency of British India in January 1839,[1] and which continued until the 1960s.
IOW another Great British shitshow.
Posted by: ChatNPC | Sep 10 2026 21:23 utc | 45
More than 100 US military advisers are on the ground in Saudi Arabia providing intelligence and targeting support to the Kingdom in its military campaign against the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen, multiple sources familiar with the effort say. The assistance comes as fighting on the peninsula intensifies and risks spilling into open war with the Houthis, threatening a second major shipping corridor out of the Middle East……
Posted by: michaelj72 | Sep 10 2026 21:21 utc | 44
Good of them to congregate into one easy target.
Will Uncle Stupid send the big plane to collect their remains?
Posted by: ld | Sep 10 2026 21:47 utc | 46
Posted by: michaelj72 | Sep 10 2026 21:21 utc | 44
Well….let’s hope that Iran knows where those “advisors” are for the next round of Trumpstein’s war. I doubt Iran would show the same pathetic restraint that Russia has for US and western “advisors” in Ukraine.
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Sep 10 2026 21:49 utc | 47
For Mocha! Mocha-choca-latte for everyone, courtesy Lady Marmalade! /puts tiny plastic cocktail saber on my head and cheeps rapidly while gyrating
Posted by: titmouse | Sep 10 2026 16:58 utc | 8
You have an eye for the coloured “chicks” eh?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-nboskjL4c
Looks like I’ll be spending another hour or two on youtube.
Posted by: tucenz | Sep 10 2026 21:56 utc | 48
Houthis apparently hit the Saudi east-west running onshore pipeline. Iran hit 2 large tankers today.
Oil is going to da moon.
Posted by: unimperator | Sep 10 2026 22:04 utc | 49
A government, only kept in place(for the moment) by foreign mercs is not a legitimate government of a country.
Posted by: Rhymerez | Sep 10 2026 21:14 utc | 43
But it is the reality. It is who you deal with. it is who enforces the laws in the area, and who determines which alliances are upheld. They are the government in East Yemen, “legitimiate” or not is a matter of ideological perspective, but who the actual government is, it is the Saudi backed government in Aden.
Just like the Confederates were “the government” of the Confederate States of America during the civil war. Lincoln could not guarantee or negotiate on their behalf during the civil war with any other nations. Nor could he arrest Jefferson Davis or Robert E Lee.
We are not children here. Speaking plainly is the best way to convey ideas, not speaking in ideological wishes.
Posted by: UWDude | Sep 10 2026 22:12 utc | 51
The Cradle, Ep 263: ‘The US Loses Another Strait’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWKYYc3Gi7s
“After Hormuz, Bab al-Mandeb slips from US control.”
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To lose one stait, Mr. Trump, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Posted by: frito | Sep 10 2026 22:18 utc | 52
Just started watching Military Channel.
I just can’t get my head around the power of Ansar Allah.
Listening to him talk about Ansar Allah and Saudi Arabia trade missile attacks against each other as if Ansar Allah was anywhere NEAR as powerful as Saudi Arabia was jarring. Did not compute. And then he showed how much territory that Ansar Allah actually TOOK from Saudi Arabia. VERY IMPORTANT territory.
I know that INTELLECTUALLY I should not be surprised. Obama tried to starve them out in an attempted genocide. Biden tried to bomb them out. Trump ragged on Biden for not bombing them hard enough, bombed them himself, and then retreated a carrier group because… well because Ansar Allah is just too damn strong for the US Navy.
And now Ansar Allah uses its own formidable navy to take important islands in the Red Sea.
Much respect for Ansar Allah.
Posted by: Woke American | Sep 10 2026 22:19 utc | 53
And current oil prices.
WTI/Brent are 103.9/107.6
Posted by: Woke American | Sep 10 2026 22:22 utc | 54
The truth is that the Houthis inherited the mantle of the Imanate of Yemen which ruledfor something like a thousand years until the Egyptian intervention in 1966 and the subsequent Civil War, in which the Imanate “royalist” forces were supported by the British and other imperialists.
As has been pointed out above the British, through Bombay, took over the ancient port of Aden, the Lahej Sultanate and much of the Gulf coast in the C19th. After 1920 they helped the Saudis take over a couple of Yemen’s provinces.
The current ‘government’ recognised by -all rise- “The international community” would not last a minute without Saudi and UAE support, largely in the form of mercenaries and sheep dipped pilots from Britain and the US.
Ansarullah does not control all of Yemen’s territory but it does represent the Yemeni people who constitute a heavily armed militia- all Yemeni men are armed and trained in small arms.
Yemen was ruled by Ansarullah’s shiah (not Twelver) Imans when the Normans were preparing to invade England. It is one of very few countries in Arabia which was never ruled by foreigners and never bought by them either.
Posted by: bevin | Sep 10 2026 22:26 utc | 55
UWDude | Sep 10 2026 22:12 utc | 51
The internationally recognized government, isn’t. Can’t get it’s routed mercs out from the west even, because others control the area… They don’t pick who they are allied with, they are proxies. As mentioned, 80% of the population is in areas they do not control, they can claim land area, but most of that is empty. East Yemen is a small portion of the population, and it’s foreign support that keeps their control there, not them. With the loss of the west coast, the population % is even higher now. Really most of what they do is control oil fields for foreign interests. Lack most of the population, and …As for enforcing the laws, the Saudi/international backed government, as no access to the constitutional capitol to the country. It is not two separate countries as the Confederate States of America and the USA, that is a really poor example as all of Yemen is considered one country, no secession has taken place. The government of the CSA, and USA were governments of separate countries, lines where jurisdictions ended. No such thing exists in Yemen, just an internationally recognized “government” that you are trying to give legitimacy to which even land under it’s “control” it is not who exerts control, nor enforces laws there. Recently, they sent a government official for a tour in the southern area, they were possibly captured(still have not seen if they escaped or not) by the people who actually control that area. Same militias that won’t let their mercs leave the west without disarming.
Posted by: Rhymerez | Sep 10 2026 22:34 utc | 57
#52 @
Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 10 2026 17:36 utc | 13
Posted by: frito | Sep 10 2026 22:43 utc | 58
Posted by: Rhymerez | Sep 10 2026 22:34 utc | 57
I am not “legitimizing” the government based in Aden.
Their police and army is what legitimizes them.
Power flows from the barrel of a Gun.
Mao
Posted by: UWDude | Sep 10 2026 22:56 utc | 59
“yemeni armed forces”
Which ones?
“the Houthi” or “Ansar Allah”
Oh, now I know who you mean.
How about we just skip the confusing part, and talk about it like we always have. there is no confusion, and nobody is hurt by it.
Calling them the “yemeni armed forces” just causes confusion, and it is unnecessary, since Houthi and Ansar Allah work just fine, everybody knows what you mean, and we definitely don’t need tone policing about it, since those are the terms anybody paying attention has used for 15 years now.
fuck
your
newspeak.
Posted by: UWDude | Sep 10 2026 23:01 utc | 60
A graveyard of empires. And as I said in the other thread, a lightning advance. The Americans forgot the Persians and Yemenis martial heritage and their Gulf patrons soft venality. And what is Trump but a spineless coward in pink panties bloviating from the worlds largest pulpit? And as he continues his endless talk he brings only contempt, increasingly sharpened in focus, on those who allow him to represent them. I mean hes literally a poor little rich kid who has never been in a street fight inn his life posturing as a tough guy. Ill never take any american ‘rebel’ seriously again.
Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Sep 10 2026 23:14 utc | 61
Gulf proxies, I should say. We can start with that useless ‘King’ in Jordan whose fatass ought to be shaking in his loafers and the rest of that bloated obscene mass of incompetents that rule in UAE, Saudi Arabia and the rest of the nominally Muslim nations who have sided themselves with the Americans and Israelis. Oh and in particular the leader of Lebanon, what a spineless piece of shit.
Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Sep 10 2026 23:17 utc | 62
Ill never take any american ‘rebel’ seriously again.
Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Sep 10 2026 23:14 utc | 61
I’ve lived here my whole life, and 90% of the badasses I’ve met are posers without an independent thought in their head, and all their badassery was really just drunken stupidity and a taste for aggro music, with an ego formed by morals of stories told in violent movies and comic books.
Posted by: UWDude | Sep 10 2026 23:18 utc | 63
I totally get where you’re coming from, uw.
But the “newspeak” is the term “Houthis”, Ansar Allah and Iranian proxy.
This was ans is perpetually used by Western sources to delegitamise the popular Government of Yemen.
Any “Government” needing mercenaries to prop up and control the masses is clearly not of the people.
Just saying is all.
Posted by: Suresh | Sep 10 2026 23:32 utc | 64
Bbc reporting …… israel today fired bunker busting missiles into Iran aimed at tunnels,
Aparently huge explosions were even regesterd on the rictor scale, plus a massive fireball visable from miles away.
Posted by: Mark2 | Sep 10 2026 23:32 utc | 65
UWDude | Sep 10 2026 23:01 utc | 60
You seem quite distraught that the foreign proxy government in Yemen is not faring so well, being defeated by the Yemeni army. Much of the military that was actually Yemen people in the areas they controlled, they did not control, but were local tribes and militias that supported them(or were paid to by other countries. Much of the local, independent reporting from the area call the Ansar Allah the Yemeni army. It would be more clear than instead of referring to the Saudi/Western proxy forces as the Yemeni army that you refer to them as Saudi proxy forces. That is who arms them, not any government in Yemen.
Here, last post from a telegram channel in Persian,
“Early images of clashes between Yemeni army fighters and popular forces with Saudi mercenaries on the West Coast. You should wait for the detailed report of these battles, which will be compiled and published by Al-Harbi, but one of the news teams that accompanys the armed forces on one of the axes has published these five minutes, which I have also republished to have a more accurate and better picture of the developments in this region” https://t.me/syriankhabar/59153 Sure though, everyone paying attention calls it how you claim…
Posted by: Rhymerez | Sep 10 2026 23:36 utc | 66
Mahmood OD: ‘New Round’
https://www.youtube.com/@Mahmood_OD/streams
“Iran is getting nuclear weapons’| War before elections| Yemen’s victory.”
Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 10 2026 23:39 utc | 67
Another “newspeak” term is “internationally” recognized.
Same meaning as “rules based order”.
Both Palestine and Israel are “internationally” recognized.
Get it yet?
Posted by: Suresh | Sep 10 2026 23:42 utc | 68
You seem quite distraught that the foreign proxy government in Yemen is not faring so well,
Posted by: Rhymerez | Sep 10 2026 23:36 utc | 66
You know damn well I am quite pleased with this latest Houthi offensive. I have been posting updates about it. So can the troll bullshit.
Sure though, everyone paying attention calls it how you claim…
Posted by: Rhymerez | Sep 10 2026 23:36 utc | 66
Yeah, for 15 years, we used the term “the Houthi” and nobody cared, now all of the sudden we are some kind of “legitimizers” because we use the words we always used when nobody else was even paying attention to the conflict.
Now all of the sudden, we are the bad guys, and saying wrong hurty words. FUCK OFF.
Posted by: UWDude | Sep 10 2026 23:45 utc | 69
https://www.bitchute.com/video/fWX1IdGQyMZh
Yemeni volunteers fight for Russia
I wonder how many are fighting for Ukraine, John Helmer Gilberts Doctorow.
Posted by: UWDude | Sep 10 2026 23:48 utc | 70
@ UWDude | Sep 10 2026 23:45 utc | 69
jesus, i have missed out on the conversation!! what are we supposed to call the houthi now?
Posted by: james | Sep 10 2026 23:49 utc | 71
wait!! what does the cia, or usa terrorist gov’t call them?? i suppose that is the label i am supposed to use, lol..
Posted by: james | Sep 10 2026 23:49 utc | 72
The Houthi should probably target the Saudi economy before Mecca Agreement partners provide intel and defence against drones to vulnerable critical infrastructure.
Looking at you Aramco…
Posted by: necromancer | Sep 10 2026 23:51 utc | 73
jesus, i have missed out on the conversation!! what are we supposed to call the houthi now?
Posted by: james | Sep 10 2026 23:49 utc | 71
You cant even call them Ansar Allah anymore, according to our new politically correct lecturers here at MoA.
I honestly wonder if these guys were subscribed to Yemen Wrath on youtube like I was multiple times in 2014 to 2016, resubscribing to the new channel every toime the old channel was taken down.
Where do these people even come from?
Posted by: UWDude | Sep 10 2026 23:53 utc | 74
I’ll say one more thing on the matter.
Imagine you are in a cafe, you meet a man from Yemen, who happens to speak English, and is from Sanaa, and somehow is in your country.
You say “the Houthi are fieice fighters, never give up, big fan, subscribed to their youtube!”
Do you think they would reply, “uh, excuse me, but calling us Houthi legitimizes the government of Aden and is a term used to denote us as terrorists. Please, I am a member of the Yemeni Armed Forces.”
Fuck no,
Only stupid white pricks display such arrogance. Always offended on behalf of others who arent offended.
Posted by: UWDude | Sep 11 2026 0:04 utc | 76
see the video at the second link
https://t.me/me_observer_TG/1087615#
Middle East Observer
⚡️ The head of Saudi mercenaries residing in Riyadh, pleading with the world: What is happening near Bab al-Mandab should not be treated as a Yemeni affair only. Any threat to Bab al-Mandab extends directly to the Red Sea, the Suez Canal, and global trade. He calls for Arab and international intervention to protect the western coast. Kumayl
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https://t.me/RezistanceTrench/56635#
ResistanceTrench mirror
🇸🇦⚡The Yemeni armed forces are conducting a parade within the city of Mokha after driving out Saudi-backed mercenaries from it.
Posted by: michaelj72 | Sep 11 2026 0:05 utc | 77
UWDude | Sep 10 2026 23:45 utc | 69
You are legitimizing a proxy government, that you have been doing it more than a decade, makes it no less so… Yemeni army for the proxy army is calling the foreign puppet government the legitimate one, well more so in insisting that Ansar Allah’s armed forces cannot be called it, when those in the area do. Ansar Allah and Saudi proxy forces is much clearer than calling either the official name for discussion, but insisting that Ansar Allah forces are not called the Yemeni Army is completely false.
Posted by: Rhymerez | Sep 11 2026 0:16 utc | 78
michaelj72 | Sep 11 2026 0:05 utc | 77 Posted another video along with that one that had people on foot getting a liberator’s march through the city earlier.
Much I’m sure to dude’s dismay, a source that has covered the area for a long time calls it the “The Yemeni armed forces”
Posted by: Rhymerez | Sep 11 2026 0:21 utc | 79
Cmon uw you’re way better than that.
In Yemen, it’s all about tribal loyalties. My understanding is that is very much the same with all Arabs.
Just because someone is from Saana, he might not be a Houthi.
It’s like calling a Navajo, a Black Crow, because you know, Injun.
The Houthis are but a tribe.
Ansar Allah are a political movement consisting of the major tribes Yemen.
Posted by: Suresh | Sep 11 2026 0:28 utc | 80
UWDude | Sep 11 2026 0:04 utc | 76See what they say if you call the Saudi proxy forces the Yemeni Armed Forces… It happens, but see more specifically what happens if you tell them that they cannot call their forces the Yemeni Armed Forces, that would be the appropriate equivalent of your bar scenario.Quite a strawman you setup there, trying to turn it around. Remember how you started it?
How about say this to them in your hypothetical bar
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The Houthi are not the Yemen nation. They are the west yemen nation. Just like the saudi backed government is not the government of Yemen, it is the government of East Yemen. That is the REALITY.
Posted by: UWDude | Sep 10 2026 20:26 utc | 31″
Posted by: Rhymerez | Sep 11 2026 0:31 utc | 81
Posted by: Suresh | Sep 11 2026 0:28 utc | 80
In memoriam of many wasted pixels: Houthis
The Houthis,[d] officially known as Ansar Allah,[e] is a Zaydi[a] revivalist and Shia Islamist political and military organization that emerged from Yemen in the 1990s. It is predominantly made up of Zaydis, whose namesake leadership is drawn largely from the al-Houthi family.
Posted by: ChatNPC | Sep 11 2026 0:36 utc | 82
The Giant Brigades, ‘pro-PLC’, have confirmed the fall of the Strait of Bab el-Mandeb to the Ansarullah forces.Their official media announced the al-Houthi forces control the Mayun Island and the town of Murad.The end of the Mocha direction, and the start of the Aden direction.
https://t.me/CIG_telegram/83694
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Orange = territory captured by the Ansarullah in just the past 24 hours.
https://t.me/CIG_telegram/83695
Posted by: UWDude | Sep 11 2026 0:36 utc | 83
Pepe Escobar who went to Yemen in 2025 says their proper name is Ansarallah. Here’s one of his reports from that visit. There are others; all of them very educational.
Anybody at all who has the slightest interest in the goings on in that area of the world knows who the Houthis are. They also know that Ansar Allah is another name for the same group. Even if the term Houthis was supposed to be derogatory most on these boards see them as heroes. Trying to make the word Houthis derogatory failed.
Posted by: arby | Sep 11 2026 0:47 utc | 85
Houthi, or Ansar Allah if you insist, and acronyms to get nerdy or sucinct …
…but if you start saying ‘government’ or ‘armed forces’ or ‘popular’ few will have any idea who or what you are talking about at all.
Posted by: Ornot | Sep 11 2026 1:06 utc | 86
https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/36624#
Middle East Spectator — MES
—❗️🇸🇦/🇾🇪 BREAKING: Today, for the first time, Yemen struck Saudi Arabia’s East-West Pipeline, which carries crude oil from Abqaiq to Yanbu on the Red Sea coast
Multiple fire hot-spots were detected at six points along the pipeline route at roughly the same time, around 17:56 UTC.
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https://www.presstv.co.uk/Detail/2026/09/10/776035/Yemeni-Armed-Forces-seize-control-of-strategic-Bab-el-mandeb-Strait-in-major-coastal-breakthrough
Yemeni forces capture port of al-Ardhi on Bab al-Mandeb: Report
The Yemeni Armed Forces have taken control of the key al-Ardhi port area on Bab al-Mandeb, Iranian news agency Tasnimi reported, citing its correspondent in the capital Sana’a.
The report said the capture on Thursday gives the YAF control of Yemen’s coastline overlooking the strategic Bab al-Mandab Strait and said this could allow forces fighting Saudi mercenaries to exert greater influence over maritime traffic between the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.
The fall of al-Ardhi marks the culmination of a rapid and highly successful military campaign along Yemen’s western coast against Saudi-backed mercenary groups.
The capture of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, Arabic for the “Gate of Tears”, gives the Sana’a government unparalleled leverage over maritime traffic entering and exiting the Red Sea……
Posted by: michaelj72 | Sep 11 2026 1:19 utc | 87
Ad hoc roundup:
Two ships struck in Hormuz
Pipeline sabotage in Saudi (satellite).
Various bombings and assassination in Gaza.
Taher tunnels were destroyed using 1000 tonnes of explosive causing mag 4 tremor, various videos online.
Algeria breaks diplomatic relations with UAE
No new attack on Iran so far, allegations of nuclear related tunneling at two sites, IAEA forwarding a resolution.
Gaza, one of many daily reminders from officials of the reality in Gaza:
Journalist Youssef Fares
“Hamas leader Dr. Basem Naim : Since dawn today , six Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip due to Israeli shelling. This has become the daily reality in the Strip since the ceasefire agreement was signed in Sharm el-Sheikh last October. The number of martyrs since the agreement has reached approximately 1,400, with more than 4,500 wounded, 40% of whom are children and women. We hear no comment from the UN Peacekeeping Council or its representative, Mladenov, as if the matter doesn’t concern us, as if the arduous negotiations that led to the El Alamein agreement were merely to provide Netanyahu and his government with cover to continue the killing and destruction. Mladenov, in his position as the UN High Representative for the Peacekeeping Council and with his complete silence, personally bears responsibility, because on every occasion he has been quick to unjustly blame the Palestinians. We are not responsible for the Israeli elections and their results. Silence is complicity, and this situation is unsustainable”
‘Martyrdom of Commander Abu al-Haytham al-Yazuri, Commander of the Khan Yunis Brigade’
https://t.me/youseffares19/125369
Posted by: Ornot | Sep 11 2026 1:28 utc | 88
MR: Sulaiman Ahmed & Daniel Haqiqatjou : ‘Jolani is Mossad?’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsXsYHwng-4
“Jolani is an agent of US & Israel; Assad and Syria.”
DDN: Abby Martin Exposes All
https://x.com/DoubleDownNews/status/2097731224789798978
“The video the US military wants to ban.”
Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 11 2026 1:45 utc | 89
I haven’t been to Sanaa, Yemen since 2012, IIRC.
Used to have a little sideline gifting Johnny Walker to airport management, in exchange for delicious local honey.
Local clans are called by the family name. The Al-Houthi clan was known in the local souk, don’t recall the locals using the official Ansar Ullah nomenclature.
Posted by: necromancer | Sep 11 2026 1:54 utc | 90
@ UWDude | Sep 11 2026 0:04 utc | 76
i think it is some sort of woke thing, but maybe i am wrong.. i also agree with @ 85 arby too..
Posted by: james | Sep 11 2026 2:09 utc | 91
Chilling:
“The US has approved a potential $5 billion sale of over 10000 guided bombs to Saudi Arabia amid regional escalation” Web
Houthi/AnsarAllah
“to…the emergence of the Houthis as a separate political and ideological movement in 2001 which changed their name to Ansar Allah in 2011” Ismaha
Posted by: Ornot | Sep 11 2026 2:09 utc | 92
UWDude how about calling them by the name they use for themselves instead. I bet you’re the kind of guy who’s good with redskins and wet backs because, hey, that’s what they’ve been called and everyone understands who you’re referring to. So to sum up, fuck you and your white ethnocentric world view.
Posted by: BG | Sep 11 2026 2:11 utc | 93
Aparently huge explosions were even regesterd on the rictor scale, plus a massive fireball visable from miles away.
Posted by: Mark2 | Sep 10 2026 23:32 utc | 65
That, my friend, is called a nuclear weapon. Israel just used it.
USrael has NO conventional weapons of hitting Iran’s deep underground bunkers. Especially ones that are delivered by a missile or bomb.
Posted by: unimperator | Sep 11 2026 2:16 utc | 94
Why is the worst still ahead?
– Technical setup: Crude Oil is about to enter the highway
– Fundamental setup: Demand >> Supply
– SPR Parachute: gone
https://x.com/DarioCpx/status/2098212908769718428
Posted by: unimperator | Sep 11 2026 2:21 utc | 95
“We will hunt those filthy Somali rats on land and sea, from the Minnesota welfare offices to shores of Tripoli!”
Somali pirates are back. doing more than stealing honest Americans’ food benefits. the savages even stole Forrest Gump’s box of chocolates.
Posted by: duck n cover | Sep 11 2026 2:30 utc | 96
“the abuse of sincere beliefs of Trojans, its beliefs in gods, not expecting that someone could dare to disrespect thier common gods and sacred symbols at such extent. Namely that was the essence of destructive power of Trojan horse if considered as a weapon.”
While everyone has bought into the symbolism of the Trojan Horse, it is likely an allusion to their god not protecting them from an earthquake which allowed the Greeks to win….Trojans gods did not save them from destruction by a natural disaster. Was there even a war?
https://ourfakehistory.com/index.php/season-1/episode-17-was-there-a-real-trojan-war-part-iii/
Posted by: Laradise | Sep 11 2026 2:36 utc | 97
Posted by: unimperator | Sep 11 2026 2:16 utc | 94
a mag 4 esrthquake does indeed suggest a nuke. Let‘s see if confirmed later on Friday local time.
Posted by: Amalek (ne exile) | Sep 11 2026 2:37 utc | 98
I remember it like it was yesterday. In 2014, the elected president of Ukraine fled the capitol when the rioters and snipers caused panic.
The US and its vassals, along with the media, instantly proclaimed that he was no longer the president and the coup leaders were the legit government of Ukraine.
The very next year, Ansarallah swept into Sana and the leader of Yemen fled the capitol to Saudi Arabia. The US and its vassals, along with the media, declared that he was still the legitimate leader of Yemen.
11 years later, the Official Narrative is STILL that the legit government of Yemen rules from a hotel room in Riyadh, and the actual government of Yemen are the “Houthi rebels”, who cause a lot of trouble, rebelling and all.
Go ahead, look it up on a US search engine. You will be told that the legit government of Ukraine is the Zelensky regime, and the legit government of Yemen, the “internationally recognized” government, operates from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Posted by: wagelaborer | Sep 11 2026 2:55 utc | 99
BBC would be the only outlet reporting these “bunker busters” fired from “Israel” at Iran.
I find it very hard to believe since not a single Telegram channel is talking about it.
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Sep 11 2026 2:59 utc | 100