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Iran Announces ‘Operation Victory’

June 8, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. , , , ,
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced “Operation Victory” on 8 June, after launching new barrages of ballistic missiles at sites in Israel following Israeli attacks on the Islamic Republic.  The escalation, which was triggered by Israel’s brutal war on Lebanon, has also seen Yemen close the Bab al-Mandab Strait to Israeli shipping. The IRGC said in a statement that Operation Victory targeted “important centers of the strategic air bases of Nevatim and Tel-Nof.”  It added that the operation was carried out in “response to the child-killing Zionist regime’s missile aggression against several radar sites in three parts of the country.”

Somalia Blocks Israeli Ships At The Bab al-Mandab Strait

May 2, 2026 Lyn Neeley, Workers World. , , ,
Between Somalia and Yemen lies the Bab al-Mandeb Strait connecting the Gulf of Aden to the Red Sea. It is a crucial passageway for the majority of shipping between the Gulf of Aden / Indian Ocean and the Red Sea, which leads to the Suez Canal. On April 22, Somalia announced a ban on Israeli-linked ships traveling through the channel. Yemen has had an ongoing blockade of Israeli ships at the Bab al-Mandeb Strait since November 2023. Following the start of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, Yemen’s Ansarallah government, in support of the Palestinians, closed off the strait to any ships taking supplies to Israel.

How Yemen’s ‘Asabiyya’ Is Reshaping Geopolitics

January 27, 2024 Pepe Escobar, Orinoco Tribune. , , , , , , , , , ,
Yemen’s Ansarallah resistance forces have made it very clear, right from the start, that they set up a blockade in the Bab el-Mandeb and the southern Red Sea only against Israeli-owned or destined shipping vessels. Their single objective was and remains to stop the Gaza genocide perpetrated by the Israeli biblical psychopathy. As a response to a morally-based call to end a human genocide, the United States, masters of the Global War Of Terror (italics mine), predictably re-designated Yemen’s Houthis as a “terrorist organization,” launched a serial bombardment of underground Ansarallah military installations (assuming US intel know where they are), and cobbled together a mini-coalition of the willing that includes its UK, Canadian, Australian, Dutch, and Bahraini vassals.
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