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WASHINGTON, Oct 15 (Reuters) – The Trump administr

WASHINGTON, Oct 15 (Reuters) – The Trump administration has issued fresh Iran-related sanctions targeting 16 individuals and 10 entities, according to a notice posted on the US Department of Treasury website on Thursday.

(Reporting by Bhargav Acharya and Susan Heavey)

By John Davison LONDON, Oct 15 (Reuters) – Houthi

By John Davison
LONDON, Oct 15 (Reuters) – Houthi militants who control northwestern Yemen have in the past week attacked Riyadh international airport and hit the headquarters of Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest oil company, in air assaults that have laid bare Saudi Arabia’s vulnerability to threats from its enemy next door.

The attacks are shattering the illusion of Saudi Arabia as a safe international investment hub as it tries to attract foreign money and diversify away from oil.

This nightmare scenario for a key US ally in the [Persian] Gulf has been years in the making, weapons and regional experts say.

They attribute Saudi Arabia’s vulnerability to a ragtag group of Yemeni fighters to a perfect storm of factors that include Tehran helping the Houthis reach near self-sufficiency in producing and deploying advanced weapons, and the impact of the US war on Iran that has depleted stocks of interceptors.

Iran has been giving weapons, money and training to the Houthis, known formally as Ansar Allah, for more than a decade, although Tehran has officially denied arming the Houthis in violation of a ⁠UN arms embargo.

While Iran has come under its own financial and military strains due to war and sanctions, the Houthis have learned – with Iranian help – how to assemble their own weapons, including drones and missiles, the experts interviewed by Reuters said.

Iran‘s Revolutionary Guards and members of Iran‘s other ally, Lebanese Hezbollah, initially gave the Houthis knowledge of missile systems and their operation, said Andreas Krieg, senior security studies lecturer at King’s College London.

“Former Yemeni military engineers and a growing generation of locally trained specialists have helped institutionalise these capabilities,” he said.

“Tehran has not simply supplied the Houthis with weapons. It has helped create an indigenous military-industrial learning process that becomes progressively harder to dismantle, even if direct Iranian supply routes are disrupted.”

Oct 15 (Reuters) – Lebanese Hezbollah lawmaker Has

Oct 15 (Reuters) – Lebanese Hezbollah lawmaker Hassan Fadlallah said on Thursday that a car carrying hundreds of kilograms of explosives seized by Lebanese security forces earlier this week belonged to the Iran-backed group, as the government presses ahead with efforts to disarm Hezbollah.

(Reporting by Jana Choukeir and Tala Ramadan; Editing by Emelia Sithole-Matarise)

By M.B. Pell, Ryan McNeill and Kaylee Kang LONDON

By M.B. Pell, Ryan McNeill and Kaylee Kang

LONDON, Oct 15 (Reuters) – Iran and its proxies have carried out dozens of pinpoint strikes on infrastructure in the [Persian] Gulf since the start of the war, systematically disabling critical equipment and causing cascading failures and economic damage region-wide in a deft campaign that helps explain how the Islamic Republic has held its own against the more powerful US military.

Iran and the allies it arms went after vital oil-routing systems at Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates, the main port outside the Strait of Hormuz, disabling operations for weeks. They hit Qatar’s Ras Laffan liquefied natural gas facility, striking two of the “cold boxes” that house cooling equipment that liquefies gas. They targeted airports across at least four countries, this month striking one in Saudi Arabia four days in a single week. And they incinerated a pumping station and damaged two others along a key Saudi pipeline, cutting off another main bypass around Iran’s blockade of Hormuz.

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By Samia Nakhoul DUBAI, Oct 15 (Reuters) – The Hou

By Samia Nakhoul
DUBAI, Oct 15 (Reuters) – The Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia are about more than Yemen.

By targeting infrastructure and disrupting investment events central to Saudi Arabia’s economic ambitions, they aim to pressure Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to both meet Houthi demands in Yemen and persuade US President Donald Trump to ease the US blockade choking Iran‘s economy, according to Saudi, Iranian and regional sources.

The campaign reflects a calculation by Iran and the Houthis that Saudi Arabia’s prosperity, investment ambitions and exposure to disruption make it a vulnerable pressure point in a confrontation stretching from the Strait of Hormuz at the mouth of the Persian Gulf to Bab el-Mandeb in the Red Sea.

Iran, under mounting economic and military pressure following the war launched by the US and Israel on February 28, is seeking to raise the cost of Washington’s strategy by targeting its regional partners, said Michael Knights of strategic advisory Horizon Engage.

“The Iranians are in a chokehold,” he said. Unable to force Washington to change course directly, Tehran and the Houthis are “hammering Saudi Arabia, they’re hammering the weak point,” he added, exploiting the kingdom’s economic vulnerability and desire for stability.

The Houthis have a direct interest in easing the US blockade on Iran, their principal regional backer. A relaxation of pressure on Tehran would likely strengthen its ability to sustain the political, financial and military support and flow of weapons and cash on which the US says the movement depends.

But the Houthis also have their own demands, said two Saudi sources and three regional sources familiar with Saudi thinking: an end to Saudi military operations and restrictions on Yemeni ports and airports, regular flights to Iran, restored salary payments, war compensation and an end to Riyadh’s support for Yemen’s recognised government. Their terms would consolidate Houthi rule over much of Yemen.

FRANKFURT, Oct 15 (Reuters) – A German court on Th

FRANKFURT, Oct 15 (Reuters) – A German court on Thursday handed two men prison sentences of up to 8-1/2 years for planning to kill the leader of a Jewish organisation in Germany, saying one man had been steered by Iran‘s intelligence service.

One man, previously identified as Danish national Ali S., was sentenced to eight years and six months for preparing an assassination and aggravated arson, judges ruled.

“The court is convinced that the defendant, S., was recruited by the Iranian secret service and integrated into it to carry out state-sponsored terrorist activities in Germany under Iran’s direction,” the court in the northern city of Hamburg said in a statement.

The Iranian Embassy in Germany did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Another man, previously named as Afghan national Tawab M., was sentenced to four years and six months for his role in the plot.

The verdicts, which can be appealed, come as a war with Iran launched by the United States and Israel in February has spilled over into an escalating conflict between Saudi Arabia and Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis.

German federal prosecutors brought criminal charges against the two men in May.

The court said that in early 2025, S. was tasked with gathering information on the President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Josef Schuster, and the Chairman of the German-Israeli Society, Volker Beck.

He was also instructed to spy on two Jewish grocers in Berlin, they added.

(Writing by Ludwig Burger; Editing by Alexandra Hudson)

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