WASHINGTON \u2014 Houthi rebels harassing crowded shipping lanes in the Greater Middle East, eliciting responses from the U.S. military and other forces, are relying on foreign arsenals for their missiles and drones in the air and on the water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Experts interviewed by C4ISRNET said the militant group based in Yemen, from where Red Sea and Gulf of Aden bombardments have sprung, is using Iranian technology and its derivatives. The regime has long propped up a constellation of combatants in advancement of its own goals, with its assets recently recovered in both Ukraine, after Russian use, and Iraq<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDespite being the latest militia to join Iran\u2019s axis of resistance network, the Houthis are in possession of some of the most sophisticated copies or variants of Iranian weapons,\u201d said Behnam Ben Taleblu, a senior fellow at the the Foundation for Defense of Democracies think tank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n