Jeffrey Feltman: "To be frank, we don't have independent information about this..."

Iran, Hezbollah & Al Qaeda coalescing, but Al Ansi (alone) figured it out.

Al Arabiya/ here

"Unnamed intelligence sources on the Saudi-Yemeni border detected a secret meeting between Yemen's Houthi rebels and an official from Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and top Hezbollah leaders, press reports revealed Sunday. In addition to Iran, Houthi rebels are also backed by al-Qaeda .....

Arab and Egyptian sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that the meeting was held last month to plan for an escalation of the conflict between the Shiite rebels and the Yemeni and Saudi forces, London-based Asharq al-Awsat reported.

The sources told Asharq al-Awsat they were surprised by Jeffery Feltman's, statements that there is no evidence supporting the involvement of Iran in the Houthi conflict. “Many of our friends and partners have talked to us about the possibility of outside support to the Houthis and we have heard the theories about Iranian support to the Houthis,” Feltman said in a regional security conference held in Bahrain.“To be frank, we don't have independent information about this,” he concluded. Meanwhile, Ali Mohamed al-Ansi, director of the Yemeni National Security Bureau, said there is strong evidence that Iran is backing the Houthi rebels but he cannot disclose details to the media. “The ship Yemen intercepted in October was smuggling arms to the Houthis,” he said on the fringes of the Manama dialogue, the conference held in the Bahraini capital to discuss the strategic and security challenges facing the Gulf region. “We also have proof that it was coming from Eritrea.”