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While Iranian involvement on behalf of Saleh and the Houthis was long-suspected, little evidence before the seizure of these drones linked the two. Forces from the United Arab Emirates, who seized the drone parts, are fighting as part of the Saudi-led coalition backing president Hadi. Instead, it would make Yemen’s civil war like many in history, a proxy war between other nations in the region that are arming and supplying different factions. Suspicions alone aren’t enough to prove Iranian involvement, but it was a place to start, and if the connection was there, then Yemen’s civil war wasn’t just a fight between factions within the country, one of which had an outside backer. As soon as the Qasef-1 appeared, observers noted how similar it appeared to Iran’s Ababil 2 drone.
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In question was the specific nature of the Qasef-1 drone, which the Houthis claimed as an indigenous design. This gyroscope was recovered from a Qasef-1 drone that crash-landed near Aden International Airport, February 2017. Model V10 Vertical Gyroscope from a Qasef-1