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It's up to you how much you give and there's no regular commitment. Just click the link in the show description to support now. It seems like such a strange strategic choice to give them these weapons and you know hope that they do what you want them to do.

Many such cases in that at least.

Many sense cases.

Right.

I mean it is it is no way a nightmare for the West at least it's I would say it's quite

stunning if you think about how

Willing the reins were to supply some of their best capabilities to the Uthies.

I mean the Ufis have paraded a mock-up of one missile, whether it's actually in service,

or whether it's just a mock-up, it's a different question.

I believe it's slightly more likely it's actually in service.

The Khybar Shekhan, which Lehusi is called Ahatim, and that is a precision-guarded missile with a range of

1,300 kilometers and some capabilities to invade missile defenses according to Iranian.

That system was only unveiled in Iran proper in 2022.

And then a few months later, we already saw it in Yemen.

So the Iranians were really willing to get very long-range systems and

very advanced systems to the Houthis, which is quite remarkable because if you look at

some of the other exports, they're more reluctant. So we haven't really seen them do any commercial

export of ballistic missiles. There are reports they might be doing that with Russians right now,

but apart from that we haven't really seen it. But when it comes to their core

regional geopolitical and ideological project, they are willing to break all the rules and transfer

really impressive capabilities. The other thing that is interesting here is just how

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