Trump wrote on Truth Social at 11:30 AM:
Let nobody be fooled! The hundreds of attacks being made by Houthi, the sinister mobsters and thugs based in Yemen, who are hated by the Yemeni people, all emanate from, and are created by, IRAN. Any further attack or retaliation by the “Houthis” will be met with great force, and there is no guarantee that that force will stop there. Iran has played “the innocent victim” of rogue terrorists from which they’ve lost control, but they haven’t lost control. They’re dictating every move, giving them the weapons, supplying them with money and highly sophisticated Military equipment, and even, so-called, “Intelligence.” Every shot fired by the Houthis will be looked upon, from this point forward, as being a shot fired from the weapons and leadership of IRAN, and IRAN will be held responsible, and suffer the consequences, and those consequences will be dire!DONALD J. TRUMP,PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Everyone knows that the Houthis (and Hezbollah) are funded and armed by Iran. Everyone knows that the Houthis would not do a thing without Iranian permission, and in all probability they don't do anything without being told to by Iran.
Everyone knows it but the world has pretended for years that it isn't true.
Part of the reason is because Iran would constantly threaten the world if it didn't get its way: it has thousands of rockets, it maintains a nuclear weapons program that can make a bomb in weeks or months, it pretends to be unpredictable and irrational so everyone gives it a wide berth.
Those tactics obviously work. Except for Israel's attacks in retaliation for Iran's missile attacks, the free world has steered clear of upsetting Iran.
Everyone had a role in the play where everyone publicly denied what everyone knew. This worked out well for a frightened Western world and it worked out great for Iran.
And when the Houthis started attacking a significant part of world shipping, even though this was a direct attack on many nations, the world stuck to their roles.
Until Trump.
It is another breath of fresh air of plainly saying what everyone pretends is fuzzy.
There is little doubt here. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards forces are on the ground in Yemen, “serving side by side” with the Houthis, the deputy commander of US Central Command Vice Adm. Brad Cooper told 60 Minutes last February.
In January 2024, Semafor reported:
Commanders and advisors from Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps are on the ground in Yemen and playing a direct role in Houthi rebel attacks on commercial traffic in the Red Sea.The IRGC has stationed missile and drone trainers and operators in Yemen, as well as personnel providing tactical intelligence support to the Houthis, U.S. and Middle East officials told Semafor. The IRGC, through its overseas Qods Force, has also overseen the transfer to the Houthis of the attack drones, cruise missiles, and medium-range ballistic missiles used in a string of strikes on Red Sea and Israeli targets in recent weeks, these officials said.
The legal issues on attacking the party that controls the proxy are a little fuzzy but if the US decides to attack, it has plenty of latitude to invoke international law of self defense.
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