Who are the two Houthi leaders on the US sanctions list?

On Tuesday the United States imposed sanctions on two leaders of the Houthi coup militia in Yemen for their role in fighting civilians, neighboring countries and shipping.

The sanctions imposed by the US included Mansour al-Saadi (known as the chief of staff of the naval forces in the militia) and Ahmed al-Hamzi (commander of the militia air force).

The ministry said: “Mansour Al-Saadi, the chief of staff of the Houthi Naval Forces, was the head of the deadly attacks on international shipping in the Red Sea. He received extensive training in Iran and helped Yemen smuggle Iranian weapons.”

The ministry stated: “Ahmed Ali Ahsan al-Hamzi, commander of the Yemeni air force allied with the Houthis and Yemeni air defense forces, received training in Iran for use in the Yemeni civil war in addition to the unmanned aircraft program.”

Who is Al Saadi?

The Houthi militia appointed the prominent leader in their ranks, Mansour Ahmed Al-Saadi, known as “Sajjad”, the general overseer of the naval forces, and appointed him chief of staff of these affiliated forces, who, according to information from Al-Arabiya.net, specialized Planting sea mines and preparing booby-trapped boats for international shipping under the supervision and training of experts from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and Lebanese Hezbollah.

Al-Saadi comes from the Fout Maran region in Saada Governorate, one of the main strongholds of the Houthi coup militia, and is one of the main weapons of militia leader Abdul-Malik Al-Houthi, who has a close relationship with the Iranians.

He is also one of the highest Houthi leaders near the militia leader and one of his most famous military weapons that he sent to the west coast.

According to private sources, Al-Saadi is one of the Houthi leaders who received intensive training in Iran, where he was trained by the Revolutionary Guards in Iran and oversaw the smuggling of Iranian weapons into Yemen.

Al-Saadi was part of the crew of the Iranian ship Jihan, which was arrested off the Yemeni coast in 2012 and loaded with a shipment of weapons and explosives from Iran en route to the Houthi militia. Government authorities arrested the Houthi leader, Al-Saadi, at this time and after the coup and invasion of Sanaa, the Houthi militia, by releasing him after taking control of the National Security Agency.

Al-Hamzi . from the unknown to the air force command

No information is available about Houthi leader Ahmed Ali Ahsan Al-Hamzi other than that he is from the Maran area of ​​Saada Governorate, the main fortress of the Houthi militia, and that he had no public role prior to his sudden appointment to command of the Houthi Air force.

Al-Hamzi rose to this position in early AD 2019, succeeding the prominent Houthi leader appointed by the Houthi militia to command the Air Force and the first person responsible for the downing ballistic missiles and drones, Major General Ibrahim al-Shami, who was killed under mysterious circumstances.

The sources at the time suggested that Al-Shami was liquidated by other Houthi leaders, as the Houthi leader had previously placed him under house arrest and released him by an unannounced decision.

The leader of the Houthis, Ahmed al-Hamzi, a son of Saada, was appointed commander of the Air Force despite not having a military status, but he received an education in Iran and owed him allegiance.

Sources confirmed to Al-Arabiya.net that Al-Hamzi, as an official, was confidently pushed onto this website to facilitate the work of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and Lebanese Hezbollah experts overseeing the gathering and smuggling of bomb and drone planes from Iran, directs its targets and trains the Houthi elements on them.

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