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Subject: JNS: Amid nuclear talks, Iran forges ahead with Mideast power play From: JNS News <editor@jns.org> To: <jeevacation@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 1, 2015 6:46:25 PM as t meranassajanaajaasuagiags - - . Amid nuclear talks, Iran forges ahead with Mideast power play NThe nuclear talks between world pow Amid nuclear talks, Iran forges ahead with Middle Ea play By Alina Dain Sharon/JNS.org While the outcome of the latest phase in nuclear negotiations between Iran and P5+1 pow( Iran is forging ahead with its quest for dominance in the Middle East region. A March 31 deadline for a framework agreement in the nuclear talks has not yet brought a; deal, and any pact would be just a precursor to a final deal before a June 30 deadline. Hov outcome affect Iran's regional ambitions, and what is the current extent of the Islamic Repu JNS.org spoke with experts for a snapshot of Iran's influence in Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, In Yemen Judging from images appearing in Iranian media of airplanes loaded with humanitarian aid EFTA_R1_00042044 EFTA01747538 and of Shia-Muslim Houthi rebels being shipped to Iran for medical treatment, it seems tha effort to hide its affinity for the Houthis. said Dr. Emanuele Ottolenghi, senior fellow at the F Defense of Democracies. While it is not necessarily possible to verify precisely what materials are being shipped frorr Ottolenghi described "a track record of Iran sending ships of aid' containing weapons. 'We've seen it in shipments to Gaza [and] shipments to Lebanon," Ottolenghi told JNS.org. The establishment of direct flights between Iran and Yemen by the Iranian carrier Mahan A of Iran's interest in the Yemenite conflict. That airline has coordinated with the Islamic Revc Corps-gods Force (IRGC-QF) by "secretly ferrying operatives, weapons, and funds on its f Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence David S. Cohen said in 2011. Gregory Cause, head of the Intemational Affairs Department at the Bush School of Goverr Service of Texas MM University and a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Doha C Houthis are the more interested party in the Iranian-Houthi relationship. 'The Houthis are aligned with Iran. but they're not the creation of Iran. They have more so the Iranians than the other way around; Cause told JNS.org. Dr. Hooshang Amirahmadi—a professor of planning and public policy at New Jersey-base( and a candidate in Iran's 2013 presidential race—argued that while the Houthis are Shia Iranian regime, the Houthis should not be equated with Hezbollah, a Shi'ia terror group that to Iran. "Iran's strategy toward Yemen is not a military strategy because Yemen is too far away fror told JNS.org. Yet Reuters has reported that Iran provided significant military and financial support to the I after their takeover of Sana'a (Yemen's capital) last September, quoting an anonymous se security official as saying, 'Before the entrance into Sana'a, Iran started sending weapons I support with money via visits abroad." Lebanon and Syria EFTA_R1_00042045 EFTA01747539 Amirahmadi said that unlike Iranian-Houthi ties, the relationship between Iran and Lebanon. 'brotherly." In Lebanon, it has become clear that Hezbollah willing to do whatever the Iranians ask tt 'The fiction that Hezbollah was only a Lebanese nationalist organization whose whole miss and confronting Israel from Lebanon, has been disproven by the fact they're wiling to fight Syrian civil war," Gause said. In Syria, he added. Iran "supports [President Bashar] Assad in every possible way by suppt regime with cheap oil... 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