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Iran Orders Advisers to Leave Yemen
(Telegraph-UK) Akhtar Makoii - Iran has ordered military personnel to leave Yemen, abandoning its Houthi allies as the U.S. escalates its air strike campaign. A senior Iranian official said the move aimed to avoid direct confrontation with the U.S. if an Iranian soldier was killed. The official also said Iran was scaling back its support of regional proxies to focus on direct threats from the U.S. instead. Tehran's primary concern was "Trump and how to deal with him. Every meeting is dominated by discussions about him, and none of the regional groups we previously supported are being discussed," the source said. "The view here is that the Houthis will not be able to survive and are living their final months or even days, so there is no point in keeping them on our list. They were part of a chain that relied on [Hizbullah leader] Nasrallah and [Syrian President] Assad, and keeping only one part of that chain for the future makes no sense."