A human rights report said that the Iran-backed Houthi militia has turned Yemen into an open market for drugs, and a wide dump for all prohibited and legally criminalized prohibitions, with the aim of rapid enrichment.
According to the report issued by the Yemeni Network for Rights and Freedoms, since the beginning of the Houthi coup, Yemen has become a popular market for many unlicensed commodities, stimulants and drugs of all kinds in a remarkable way, in an unusual way that Yemen has never witnessed this pumping and huge amount of drugs before.
The human rights network obtained information from various sources, confirming that drug smuggling and trafficking is closely linked to the Houthi coup militia..and explained the involvement of leaders in the Houthi group in smuggling and trading in all kinds of drugs and facilitating their passage in large quantities.
And she stressed that Iran is the main focus and the main drug smuggling quagmire for the terrorist Houthi militia.
The report considered drug trafficking "the most prominent reason behind the outrageous and rapid wealth of the Houthi leaders."
He added, "The Houthis rely heavily on drug smuggling through the huge revenues they reap from trafficking in them, as economic estimates indicated that the volume of money flowing into the coup plotters' coffers from drugs amounted to $6 billion annually."
He pointed out that "officers in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard cooperated with drug dealers in Colombia to produce cartels and submersible boats to smuggle weapons, missile components and drugs to the Houthis."
He added, "There is a team operating in secret, headed by Muhammad al-Houthi, Abu Ali al-Hakim, the brother of the militia leader, Abdul Karim al-Houthi, Faris Manna and other leaders."
The human rights network confirmed, "The involvement of prominent Houthi leaders in drug trafficking networks and their reliance on them as an important source of financing what they call the war effort, luring and attracting thousands of young people to join its ranks, and plunge them into its absurd battles."
And she explained that she had obtained special information stating that there are "39 hangars in the capital, Sana'a alone, used by Houthi merchants to hide various types of drugs that are imported from Iran, as they are smuggled through the ports of Hodeidah and Saleef, and fishing ports in the north of Hodeidah," belonging to organized networks supervised by leaders. High Houthi.
She pointed out that smuggling gangs linked to the Houthis deliberately use women and children to smuggle drugs.
She pointed out that, in addition to flooding the local market with drugs, the Houthi militia "uses Yemen as a station for smuggling drugs and exporting them to Saudi Arabia and other countries, as the governorate of Saada, the stronghold of the Houthis and close to Saudi Arabia, is one of the most prominent Yemeni cities in the drug trade, in addition to its reputation as a fertile land for the cultivation of hashish for decades." ".
And she explained that the Houthi militia deliberately kept large areas on the border between Yemen and Saudi Arabia, as safe passages for smuggling drugs into Saudi Arabia.
The report indicated that the Yemeni borders, currently with regard to Saudi Arabia, are considered one of the most dangerous sources, if not the most dangerous, for financing this scourge, as the types of drugs are still flowing towards the Kingdom in a huge way, and according to security sources, what is seized is negligible compared to the quantities that flow daily across the Yemeni borders. Saudi Arabia.
During the recent period, the drug trade witnessed a great prosperity and flow through smuggling routes to the areas controlled by the Houthis, and the Yemeni security forces were able to seize dozens of shipments in many governorates, amid confirmed intelligence information about the Iranian regime's involvement in that.
Earlier, the Yemeni authorities destroyed tons of narcotic hashish, following separate seizures of smuggling gangs affiliated with the Houthi militia, which used the drug trade to fund its war effort.
Iran uses drugs as a means of direct support for the Houthi putschists, who exploit part of it to target young people until they become addicted to it to facilitate luring and later attracting them to the Houthi fronts, while the rest of the shipments are smuggled across the border areas to the Gulf countries and the financial revenue is harnessed to support the putschist fronts.
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