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Iran’s Hybrid War, in Tehran’s Own Words: Not One Front and Not One Tool, per an Adviser to the Parliament Speake

Mahdi Mohammadi said Iran is using proxies, drones and blockades in several conflicts as regional fighting has weakened Hamas and Hezbollah.

With Hamas and Hezbollah battered, Tehran is rebuilding its proxy network through the Houthis and Iraq's militias — Houthi emissaries have worked inside Iraqi-run operations rooms, sources told the AP. An adviser to Iran's parliament speaker calls it a hybrid war: not one front, not one tool. Saudi Arabia now sits between them, its reliance on the Bab al-Mandeb up eightfold as Houthi offensives push near the strait.

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Saudi Arabia and Yemen's Houthi rebels have entered into an all-out war over control of the Strait of Bab el-Mandeb. The clashes between the two sides have resulted in over 500 deaths and 20,000 displaced people, while major Saudi oil facilities have been damaged. As crude oil shipping routes face the risk of being blocked due to this crisis, the global energy crisis is escalating, with Brent crude prices surpassing $99 per barrel.

(Cairo=Yonhap News) Correspondent Kim Sang-hoon = Saudi Arabia and the pro-Iranian Houthi rebels in Yemen are on the verge of a de facto all-out war over control of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, the entrance to the Red Sea...

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With the American military and economic pressure on Iran, and with the American restraint of its attempts to extend its sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz and obstruct its navigation, and with the attempts to activate the southern corridor of the Strait, it became clear that Tehran was seeking to ease pressure on it, to compensate for its loosening of its grip on Horms, by blowing up other fronts, and to reach another Strait, no less importan…

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The Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a key strategic hub for global maritime logistics connecting the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, is once again plunging into a storm of full-scale military conflict. As the pro-Iranian Houthi rebels in Yemen unleashed ballistic missile and drone strikes on key oil and airport facilities in southern Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia retaliated with airstrikes on Houthi strongholds within Yemen, escalating the conflict into what a…

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연합뉴스-Yonhap News Agency broke the news in Seoul, Korea (the Republic of) on Tuesday, September 8, 2026.
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