In an explicit admission, the chief of staff of the Iranian army, Mohammad Baqeri, acknowledged that his country provides military and intellectual consultations to the Houthi coup militia in Yemen, pointing out that the Revolutionary Guard forces are responsible for this support, stressing that Tehran will not abandon this matter, he said.
Tasnim news agency, which is close to Iran's Revolutionary Guards militia, on Tuesday quoted Bagheri in an interview with the Chinese Phoenix TV network, saying in a statement that "Revolutionary Guards militias have provided military and intellectual counseling in support of the Houthis in Yemen."
Bagheri noted that what he saw as military advisory assistance by the IRGC militia had also reached Syria and Iraq, where there are armed militias loyal to the Tehran regime there.
The military official played down the possibility of a regional military conflict in which Iran is a party.
The chief of staff of the Iranian army that his country supports the what he called the axis of resistance in the region, especially Yemen, which deal with Iran, because of the difficulty of sending weapons and military equipment directly, such as Damascus and Baghdad, according to Tasnim.
On more than one occasion, the Saudi-led Coalition for Support for Legitimacy in Yemen has uncovered evidence of Iran's involvement in supplying weapons, missiles and drones to Houthi militias, which the rebels use to launch attacks on the kingdom.
Less than a week after targeting oil installations in Saudi Arabia in mid-September, Khatib al-Jumah in Mashhad, the second largest city of Iran, claimed that the geography of Iran had crossed its borders to the places where its militias are located.
The hard-line cleric, who is close to Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's circle, said Houthi militias in Yemen, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Popular Mobilization in Iraq and others are part of Iran.
It is noteworthy that the Iranian media highlighted in mid-August, a meeting of Khamenei and Houthi spokesman Mohammad Abdul Salam, in Tehran, which she described at the time to give the guide absolute confidence in the coup militias inside Yemen.
Earlier this year, a hardline Iranian analyst unveiled controversial expectations that Tehran plans to reach as a strategy in the coming years, with hostile policies pursued regionally and internationally for decades.
Hassan Abbasi, head of the Yaqin Center for Strategic and Doctrinal Research, said Iran plans to cross its influence beyond the borders of Aden in Yemen, Mosul in Iraq and Aleppo in Syria.
Observers say Tehran is supplying Houthi militias in Yemen with drones and booby-trapped boats, as well as missile technology, in order to continue fueling the situation there and threatening the security of neighboring countries.