President Donald Trump on Wednesday, his third day in office, redesignated Yemen's Houthi rebels as a foreign terrorist organization, reinstating the status that former President Joe Biden reversed when he took office in 2021.
Breitbart News reported in February 2021:
President Joe Biden lifts the designation of Yemen's Houthi rebels as a terrorist organization despite the fact that they attack civilians, consider the United States an enemy, and receive weapons and funding from Iran I am doing it.
As Breitbart News previously reported, “The Houthis are a jihadist organization whose slogan is 'God is great, death to America, death to Israel, curse to Jews, victory to Islam.' It is.”
Biden administration announced Friday move, outwardly This is to ensure that humanitarian aid reaches Yemen. This follows an announcement by National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan that the US will end support for Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen on behalf of the legitimate government.
The Houthis started the war in 2014. Iran is supporting the rebels because its control of Yemen gives it a strategic position from the US military stationed in Djibouti, which faces the Red Sea across the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. That's one reason. Both sides of the civil war committed Cruelty.
The move is Biden's latest slap in the face of U.S. allies in the region and an apparent appeasement bid by the Biden administration to lure Iran back to the negotiating table.
Since Biden removed the Houthis from the list, they have launched missile attacks against Saudi Arabia, attacked international shipping in the Red Sea, and launched long-range missiles and drones against Israeli civilians.
Some left-wing groups expressed dissatisfaction with President Trump's decision. Scott Paul, peace and security director at Oxfam America, said Trump's decision was “another blow to the Yemeni people caught up in a decade of deadly conflict.”
It added: “Regardless of their actions, designating them as a terrorist group will only exacerbate the suffering of the Yemeni people and is unlikely to change Houthi policy.” Instead, the United States should support new independent accountability mechanisms and a renewed focus on political resolution of conflicts. ”
