India-bound oil tanker attacked by Houthi rebels in Red Sea, claims US military
The attack occured at 10:30 pm on Saturday, hours after another tanker MV Chem Pluto was hit by a drone strike in the Arabian Sea.
The attack occured at 10:30 pm on Saturday, hours after another tanker MV Chem Pluto was hit by a drone strike in the Arabian Sea.
Tehran now has a foothold on the Arabian Peninsula and while the Houthis don’t follow Iran blindly, their military leadership has established a close relationship with Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The world has the ill-conceived intervention in Yemen by the Saudis to thank for this.
The impact on the Yemeni population caught between the Saudi forces and Houthi rebels has been devastating. Ordinary Yemenis have no place of refuge in the region to flee to from the incessant violence. Experts peg the number of internally displaced persons in Yemen at close to four million.
The Yemeni army backed by the Saudi-led coalition has advanced this month to several new strategic areas in the north and south of the province
The Houthi group has not claimed responsibility for the attack.
The attack by Tehran-backed Houthi rebels in neighbouring Yemen, where a Saudi-led coalition is bogged down in a five-year war, effectively shut down six percent of the global oil supply.
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