U.S. Considering Terror Review Into Iran-Backed Houthis

Next Steps Could Include Potential Foreign Terrorist Organization Designation & Sanctions 

(New York, N.Y.) – The United States is reportedly preparing a new legal and intelligence review into the Yemen-based, Iran-backed Houthis which could lead to a designation of the group as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO). The group’s leader, Abdulmalik al-Houthi, is already subject to U.S. sanctions. The U.S. review of the Houthis’ terror ties and activity is the latest in a string of intensified actions by the Trump Administration to target and disrupt Iran’s financial and materiel support of the Houthis, and comes in the wake of the U.S. restoration of all U.N. sanctions against the regime for its support of global terror proxies and violations of its obligations under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI)’s resource, Iran’s Proxy Wars: Yemen, outlines the Islamic Republic of Iran’s history of financial and military support to the Houthis and the destabilizing consequences for Yemen from these activities. UANI’s Houthis resource analyzes Iran’s backing of the Houthi rebels as part of the regime’s worldwide terror campaign.

Iran’s support for the Houthis (directly, and indirectly through Hezbollah) since 2004—including through the provision of monetary funding, arms and equipment shipments, and military training—has allowed the extremist group to carry out Tehran’s global terror campaign and create severe instability and chaos in Yemen and throughout the region. The Houthis and Yemen are used, respectively, by Iran to attack its leading Sunni rival, Saudi Arabia.

Iran’s support for the Houthis has also helped the latter expand their control of Yemeni territory; capture Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, and dethrone Yemen’s central government; and survive an aerial bombardment from a Saudi-led coalition seeking to restore the former Yemeni regime.

To read UANI’s Houthis resource, please click here.

To read UANI’s resource, Iran’s Proxy Wars: Yemen, please click here.

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