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Former Houthi Leader: Iran Funding, Training Houthi Rebels

Abdallah Al-Mahdoun, former official in the Houthi rebel forces in Yemen, has told a Yemeni website that Iran is has funded and armed the Houthis in their war against the Yemeni regime, and that experts from Hizbullah and Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Al-Qods Forces trained Houthi activists.

He said that Hizbullah commanders might have been killed in battles in Yemen.

Source: Newyemen.net, October 10, 2009

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