“The Axis of Resistance (Persian: محور مقاومت, romanized: mehvar–e moqâvemat, Arabic: محور المقاومة, romanized: miḥwar al-muqāwamah) is an informal anti-Israeli and anti-Western political and military coalition led by the Iranian government. It includes the Syrian Arab Republic, Lebanese Shia militant group Hezbollah and various militant groups in Palestine.”
Axis of Resistance
Leaders
Ali Khamenei (Supreme Leader of Iran)
Bashar al-Assad (President of Syria)
Hassan Nasrallah (Secretary-General of Hezbollah)
Falih Al-Fayyadh (Chairman of Popular Mobilization Committee)
Abdul-Malik al-Houthi (Leader of Ansar Allah)
Houthi movement
“The Houthi movement (/ˈhuːθi/; Arabic: الحوثيون al-Ḥūthiyūn [al.ħuː.θi.juːn]), officially known as Ansar Allah[a] (أنصار الله ʾAnṣār Allāh, lit. ’Supporters of God’), is a Shia Islamist political and military organization that emerged from Yemen in the 1990s. It is predominantly made up of Zaidi Shias, with their namesake leadership being drawn largely from the Houthi tribe.”
Slogan of the Houthi Movement:
“Death to America
Death to Israel
A Curse Upon the Jews
Victory to Islam” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houthi_movement
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_of_Resistance
CBS: “What Iran’s leaders and citizens are saying as the U.S. plans strikes on Iranian targets in Iraq and Syria:
“The world was still waiting days after the drone attack in Jordan that killed three American service members, exactly how the U.S. would respond. President Biden blamed the strike on “radical Iran-backed militant groups operating in Syria and Iraq,” and an umbrella group called the Islamic Resistance in Iraq later appeared to claim responsibility.”
https://theconversation.com/the-houthis-and-the-risks-of-internationalizing-the-yemeni-crisis-36729
The Conversation: “The Houthis and the risks of internationalizing the Yemeni crisis.”
“On January 22 Houthi rebels put pressure on the Yemeni government, causing President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi and his Cabinet to resign, in what was essentially a soft coup.”
“This most recent Yemeni political crisis has drawn a great deal of attention from a United States and international community determined to maintain a reliable partner for counter-terror operations against al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), believed to be the most dangerous AQ affiliate in the world.”
“The Houthis have been often misleadingly described as “Iranian-proxies.” This label is dangerous. It distracts us from focusing on what is really important. We need to understand a group like the Houthis on their own terms – as an independent movement – if the US is to interact with them effectively and continue a relationship with the Yemeni government.”
“The Houthis may be a xenophobic Shiite militant group, but they are also locally-based, internally divided, and politically pragmatic.”
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