The recent attack on Saudi Arabia's oil installations raises several questions on the military capability of Yemen-based Houthi militia and its relationship with Iran
In the last couple of months whenever Houthi rebels in Yemen have fired missiles or flown drones to hit oil installations and airports in Saudi Arabia, the blame has inevitably been pinned on Iran.
The September 14th attack on key oil facilities in Saudi Arabia has brought the Iran-Houthi ties into focus. The explosions, probably caused by cruise missiles, damaged Abqaiq, the world’s largest oil processing facility. There are doubts if the cruise missiles or drones were launched from the Houthi-controlled parts of Yemen, which is hundreds of miles away from Saudi oil facilities, making a precision hit difficult.
That’s when Iran came into the picture and started supplying more sophisticated weapons to the group, which was fighting its regional nemesis.
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