There are growing indications that Iran may be pushing for a greater role or an intensification in the northern Yemen conflict. According to Iranian media, a top Iranian general has recently asked for permission to attack the Yemeni and Saudi embassies in Tehran. This is in all likelihood, fantasy. Other information suggests that Iran may be sending "advisors" to Yemen to assist the rebels. This seems the more likely of the two reports that have recently surfaced. Already Iran's funding and supply of the rebels has been affected by a Saudi and Yemen naval blockade of Saada and Iran is keen to reopen these channels to intensify a war that is increasingly looking like dragging Saudi Arabia, a Iranian challenger in the region, into a drawn out campaign. How they go about doing this is the hard part. With no way to directly enter the state Iran is looking towards other methods, the advisors in particular. Mecasr continue this developing conflict with great interest.
