Desperate Eritrea becomes Iran’s Ally on the Ongoing Israel- Iran Confrontation

Source: Ethiomedia
Iran deploys soldiers, ships and submarines at Assab Port
Israel warns Iran against Assab deployment
Prospects of wider war run high: analysts
WASHINGTON, DC - Twenty-five Eritrean naval soldiers and officers have fled to Yemen aboard two speed boats, an Eritrean opposition website reported on Tuesday.
"Among those who have sought shelter in Yemen are three captains," asena-online.com said. The source didn't give details when the naval crew surrendered to Yemeni officials, nor was the news report verified by independent sources.
Abdella Jaber, a senior official with the ruling party of President Isaias Afwerki, was negotiating with Yemeni government officials for the deportation of the soldiers, the source said.
Earlier last week, Asena reported that Iran was deploying troops at the Red Sea Port of Assab in exchange for renovating the Assab Oil Refinery.
Iran's troop deployment at Assab Port was confirmed on Tuesday by InfoLive.Tv, which reported that " Iranian ships and submarines were deployed ...at the Eritrean port town of Assab at the Horn of Africa in the Arabian Sea just below the Strait of Hormuz."
The Israeli-owned news source said: "It appears that Iran is using the pretext of an accord it signed with Eritrea to revamp a Russian built refinery there to station its troops and maintain a strong military presence with full command of the Straits of Hormuz. At the same time as the world's second largest importer of gasoline, its deal with Eritrea guarantees it a constant supply free from international intervention. The President of Eritrea has already granted Teheran complete and exclusive control of the Eritrean Oil Refinery."
With the prospect of an Iran-Israel confrontation running high, Ethiomedia analysts say there is a huge possibility that the region may turn into a war theater. "Ethiopia's U-turn from troop pullout to redeployment of troops in Mogadishu and other parts of Somalia is undoubtedly part of the equation of an impending war unless major powers intervene to disrupt the breakout of war," one observer said.