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I renewed United State -Saturday dawn- Its attacks on L.S. targetsHouthi group in Yemen Carrying out a strike targeting a radar site, 24 hours after joint raids with Britain targeted their sites, after warnings from Britain weeks ago to stop attacking ships in the Red Sea, otherwise there will be consequences.
Despite these warnings, the Houthis continued to launch drones and missiles, prompting the United States to implement its threats. This raised a question among some experts: Did the Houthis want war with the United States? If this is true, why?
Gerald Feierstein, the former US ambassador to Yemen, is one of those who believe that Washington gave the Houthis exactly what they wanted: fighting. “They were certainly trying to provoke a retaliation from the United States,” he said.
“They were confident that they could withstand anything we threw at them,” Firestein added. “They saw that they had popular support.”
The movement, which has controlled large areas of Yemen for nearly 10 years, said that 5 fighters were killed after launching 73 air strikes in total. It vowed revenge and continued its attacks on shipping operations, which it says are aimed at supporting the Palestinians against Israel.
After the first American and British strikes on the Houthis, which targeted command and control centers, ammunition stores, missile launch systems, and radar systems, drone footage broadcast by the Houthis’ Al-Masirah channel showed hundreds of thousands gathering in Sanaa, chanting slogans denouncing Israel and the United States. Crowds gathered in other Yemeni cities as well.
Experts say that a great deal of the Houthis’ confidence stems from their resistance to Saudi attacks for years. But the US-led campaign against the movement may be very different.
Director of Operations at the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Douglas Sims, told reporters – on Thursday – that the first strikes targeted 28 sites with more than 150 munitions. When assessing the damage, he said that he hoped the Houthis would not cause this type of destruction.
“I think if you were operating a ballistic missile launcher last night, you certainly wouldn’t have wanted to carry out the strike. But, no, I would hope they wouldn’t want us to carry out the attacks,” Sims added.
Fighters in the mountains
The leader of the Houthi group confirms Abdul Malik Al Houthi In pre-recorded speeches and speeches, he stated that his movement is under siege because of religion.
Al-Houthi gained a reputation for being a strong leader on the battlefields before he became the leader of the Houthi movement, who are mountain fighters who have been fighting against a Saudi-led military coalition since 2015 in a conflict that has claimed the lives of tens of thousands, destroyed Yemen’s economy, and pushed millions into the clutches of hunger.
Under the direction of Al Houthi, who is in his 40s, the group included tens of thousands of fighters and possessed a huge arsenal of drones and ballistic missiles, largely supplied by Iran.
In the wake of the strikes, Sims and other US officials acknowledged that the Houthis may follow through on their threats of retaliation.
The US Department of Defense (the Pentagon) stated that the Houthis launched – yesterday, Friday – an anti-ship ballistic missile towards the Red Sea.
A US official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that – far from being deterred – the Houthis may consider the possible small number of deaths among their fighters in these strikes as a success for the group, even if they lead to a decline in its capabilities.
As tensions escalated, the price of Brent crude rose 1 percent – yesterday, Friday – due to fears of possible supply disruption. Commercial ship tracking data showed that at least 9 oil tankers stopped or diverted away from the Red Sea.
The American Bloomberg Agency also believes that exposure to attacks from the “Great Satan,” as America is known, in the so-called Iranian Resistance Axis, under the slogan of fighting for the Palestinian cause, will be part of the Houthis’ plan. They have now pledged to respond, declaring that all American and British interests have become their target, and it would be foolish to underestimate and question these warnings. This battle is expected to raise their standing at home and abroad.
The American website indicates that the Islamic Resistance Movement (agitation) Iran and their allies seek to increase hatred toward Israel and the United States across the Middle East, to the point that any association with them becomes so toxic and undesirable that leaders from Saudi Arabia to Egypt are forced to distance themselves from them. The Arab street was seething with anger towards Israel and supported the Houthis’ actions in the Red Sea as a victory for the people of Gaza, and any kind of economic and security rapprochement that was well underway between Israel and Arab countries before October 7 will become impossible.
More hits
Michael Mulroy, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Middle East Affairs during the administration of former US President Donald Trump, said that the US army must prepare to carry out additional military action.
He continued, saying, “The United States must begin planning to escalate the response to further attacks in the Red Sea, Syria, or Iraq,” and demanded that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard be included among those goals.
Iran supports the Houthi movement as part of what is known as the regional “axis of resistance,” which is groups allied with Tehran that include Hamas, Lebanese Hezbollah, and armed factions in Iraq.
The United States accuses Iran of supporting Houthi attacks in the Red Sea and providing them with the military and intelligence capabilities to carry them out.
The Houthis deny being puppets of Tehran and say they are fighting a corrupt regime and regional aggression.
However, Feierstein warns that the Houthis’ challenge to the United States and its allies is helping burnish their image in the Middle East, a concern shared by some current US officials.
Feierstein said, “This enhances the image of the Houthis at the regional level. It places them in the first row among those allied with Iran in the axis of resistance.”
He added, “We should not give the Houthis what they want, and this is exactly what we did.”
