Iran War Updates: More ships attacked in Persian Gulf, but oil prices fall after Trump’s election rebuke

Updated on: November 5, 2026 / 10:55 AM EST / CBS News

The Iranian Foreign Ministry renewed the regime's rejection on Thursday of longtime and widely held beliefs that Tehran materially supports the Houthi rebels fighting the Saudi Arabia-backed government in Yemen's decade-long civil war. The conflict intensified a couple months ago and quickly became the most active and deadly front in the intertwined conflicts in the Middle East.

Foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei called the latest accusation of Iranian support for the Houthis, made Monday by European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, "baseless," and said Iran "strongly denied claims that Iranian military experts were present in Yemen."

The U.S. government, along with many other Western nations and the NATO alliance, have demanded for years that Iran stop supporting the Houthis. The support, according to these nations, includes financial backing, weapons and other equipment, and direct coordination and training.

In July, not long before the Yemen war escalated and the Houthis started launching attacks on Saudi airports in response, the Reuters news agency reported that Iran had flown commanders from its powerful, heavily sanctioned Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, along with equipment related to missiles and drones, to Yemen bolster…

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