Gifts to Iran Won’t Improve the Dire Situation in Yemen
Washington’s misguided appeasement of the Houthis.
February 9, 2021
Gifts to Iran Won’t Improve the Dire Situation in Yemen
Washington’s misguided appeasement of the Houthis.
Since 2014, Yemen has been locked in a vicious war between the Iran-backed Houthi rebels and forces supported by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The former have as their motto, “Allah is Great, Death to America, Death to Israel, Curse on the Jews, Victory to Islam.” Last week, President Biden promised to “cease all American support for offensive operations in the war in Yemen, including relevant arms sales,” and on Friday the State Department reversed its predecessor’s eleventh-hour designation of the Houthis as a foreign terrorist organization. Neither move is especially significant in itself, writes John Bolton, but as gestures they signal bad policy:
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