Perhaps Iranians know the Arab nation, its language and culture better than Arabs know Iran, its history, its faith, its literature and its politics. Perhaps the relationship between Yemen and Iran is one of the worst examples of the Yemenis' and most Arabs' failure to understand Iran from within.

Syrian General Security arrested brigadier generals close to Maher al-Assad, brother of ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and seized a drug shipment bound for Iraq, according to Al Jazeera.

The terrorist Houthi militia evacuated a strategic headquarters in an upscale neighborhood in central Baghdad, near the Green Zone, under Iranian directives to avoid provoking Washington. Meanwhile, the Yemeni government called on its Iraqi counterpart to take a more assertive stance against the Iranian-backed militia's actions.

A Lebanese newspaper revealed that Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani received stern warnings from US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth during a phone call. Hegseth warned Iraqi armed factions against any interference in the US response against the Houthis in Yemen.

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) confirmed on Saturday that Abdullah Makki Musleh al-Rifai (known as Abu Khadija), ISIS's global operations commander and second-in-command (deputy caliph), was killed in an airstrike on March 13 in Anbar province, western Iraq.

The British magazine International Viewpoint confirmed that Iran's main geopolitical goal is not to liberate the Palestinians, but to use them as a means of pressure, especially in its relations with the United States.