The “supreme leader” of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, used an address marking the Persian New Year, Nowruz, on Friday to claim that Iran does not want or “need” proxy terrorist organizations – contrary to decades of evidence of Iran serving as the world’s foremost state sponsor of terrorism – and has no authority over Yemen’s Houthi terrorists.
“The Yemeni people are motivated, the resistance centers in the regional countries are motivated. Iran does not need proxies. What does proxy mean?” Khamenei said in his address, according to the Iranian state propaganda outlet PressTV.
On the Houthis specifically, a Shiite jihadist terrorist organization formally known as “Ansarullah,” Khamenei praised the terrorists for “standing up and resisting,” but claimed they had nothing to do with the Iranian regime.
“It is a big mistake to think they are doing this on behalf of Iran. No, it is not on behalf of Iran,” he denied.
The Times of Israel further translated Khamenei’s remarks as saying, “the Yemeni nation [Ansarullah] has its own motivation and the resistance groups in the region have their own motivations. Iran doesn’t need proxies.” […]
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