{"id":6790,"date":"2017-01-16T21:27:42","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T02:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/?p=6790"},"modified":"2017-01-16T21:27:42","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T02:27:42","slug":"houthi-commander-admits-iran-training-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/6790\/","title":{"rendered":"Houthi commander admits: Iran training us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-6791 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2017115214741140665061_Newly-recruited-Houthi-fighters-parade-before--300x169.jpg\" alt=\"2017115214741140665061_Newly-recruited-Houthi-fighters-parade-before-\" width=\"391\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2017115214741140665061_Newly-recruited-Houthi-fighters-parade-before--300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2017115214741140665061_Newly-recruited-Houthi-fighters-parade-before-.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 391px) 100vw, 391px\" \/>Al Arabiya , 15 January 2017<\/strong> &#8211; A Houthi militia leader has confessed that both Iran and Hezbollah have been heavily involved in training their fighters.<br \/>\nAbu Mohammed, who was in charge of rocket attacks in the al-Nihm district in Yemen, made the confession after surrendering.<br \/>\nHe said that there were Iranian experts and Lebanese from Hezbollah militias currently in Saada helping run secret training facilities.<br \/>\nThe confession comes a month after a report by independent research group Conflict Armament Research (CAR) suggested that there are arms \u201cpipeline\u201d that extends from Iran and Yemen.<br \/>\nIran\u2019s Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) last year admitted that missiles made in Tehran were recently used in Yemen by Houthi militias in cross-border attacks against Saudi Arabia.<br \/>\nThe Zelzal-3 rockets are Iranian-made solid propellant missiles that have been known to be used by Iranian, Syrian and Hezbollah forces<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Al Arabiya , 15 January 2017 &#8211; A Houthi militia leader has confessed that both Iran and Hezbollah have been heavily involved in training their <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/6790\/\" title=\"Houthi commander admits: Iran training us\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6791,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-terrorism-fundamentalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6792,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6790\/revisions\/6792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}