IRGC Sends Commanders To Yemen's Houthi Areas, Supplies Intelligence, For Stepped

Iranian and Arab officials said Iran's hard-line leadership viewed the June memorandum as a likely attempt by the US and Israel to ease pressure on the global economy and buy time before a bigger attack. Rather than relying on the talks, the Wall Street Journal reports that Tehran used the two months following the agreement to prepare for an extended conflict, giving the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps greater control over the regular army, appointing hardened veterans of the Iran-Iraq war to key posts, expanding domestic counterintelligence, and ramping up missile and drone production.