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Since established in 2003, Hezbollah's Unit 3800 has provided the Houthis training and strategic assistance.
This overstates when Unit 3800 began working with the Houthis. Credible analyses say Unit 3800 was created for Iraqi militias after 2003 and only expanded its remit to Yemen years later.
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The claim says Unit 3800 has been aiding the Houthis since its establishment in 2003. The sources below describe a different timeline:
- The Middle East Institute says Hezbollah created Unit 3800 to support Iraqi Shi'a militant groups targeting multinational forces in Iraq.
- The Century Foundation says Unit 3800 expanded its remit to cover Syria and Yemen between 2012 and 2015.
So the problem is not whether Unit 3800 later assisted the Houthis — multiple sources say it did — but the article's claim that it had been doing so since 2003. The evidence points to Yemen becoming part of Unit 3800's mission only years after the unit was created.
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- Hezbollah’s Regional Activities in Support of Iran’s Proxy Networks
Mirroring the creation of Unit 1800 ... Hezbollah created Unit 3800, a unit dedicated to supporting Iraqi Shi’a terrorist groups targeting multinational forces in Iraq.
- Beyond the Axis
Between 2012 and 2015, Hezbollah’s external training entity, Unit 3800, formed to oversee training of the kind Daqduq provided in Iraq, expanded its remit to cover Syria and Yemen.
After examining debris from the Burkan-2H, the UN concluded in December 2017 that the missile was supplied by Iran.
The UN had not reached that conclusion in December 2017. At that point, UN officials said the missiles appeared to share a common origin, but they were still investigating claims that Iran supplied them.
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This sentence overstates what the UN had concluded in December 2017.
At that time, UN reporting did not say it had concluded that Iran supplied the missile. Instead:
- Reuters reported that UN officials found the missiles appeared to have a "common origin", but were still investigating U.S. and Saudi claims that Iran supplied them.
- In the UN's own 19 December 2017 Security Council meeting summary, Under-Secretary-General Jeffrey Feltman said the Secretariat was "still analysing material from ballistic missiles launched at Saudi Arabia, reportedly from Yemen, for determination of Iranian involvement" and that, although there were preliminary observations, the Secretariat was still analysing the information.
So the article turns a provisional, still-under-investigation assessment into a definitive UN conclusion that Iran supplied the missile.
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- UN says missiles fired at Saudi Arabia have 'common origin'
United Nations officials have found that missiles fired at Saudi Arabia by Yemen’s Houthi rebels appear to have a “common origin,” but they are still investigating US and Saudi claims that Iran supplied them.
- Maintain Strong Support for ‘Vital’ Accord on Iran Nuclear Programme, United Nations Political Affairs Chief Urges Security Council
The Secretariat was still analysing material from ballistic missiles launched at Saudi Arabia, reportedly from Yemen, for determination of Iranian involvement ... Although preliminary observations indicated Scud missile features, the Secretariat was still analysing the information.