Houthi attacks against ships.. Terrorism for global trade – Details
The Houthi terrorist group has continued its plans to threaten the region in recent years through its plans to capture the waterways, threatening international navigation in the Bab al-Mandab and the Red Sea by targeting foreign ships and oil tankers in the Gulf. Its resorting to this blackmail, which threatens international trade, is one of its cards to impose its will and agenda in Yemen.
International threat
“Many warned of the serious and unprecedented threat that Houthi naval mines pose to the safety of commercial ships and the security of navigation in the international passages in the Red Sea and the Bab al-Mandab Strait, and with this move, Houthi militias have begun a new phase of terrorist operations by threatening cargo ships following recent attacks on oil ships in the country’s eastern and southern liberated ports, as Iranian-backed putschists used weapons directed at the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), according to a recent UN report submitted to the Security Council.”
Houthi schemes
Dr. Abdul Hafeez Nahari, a Yemeni political analyst, said that the Houthi militia, the terrorist arm of Iran in Yemen, continues its terrorist activities off the Yemeni coast with the aim of obstructing and threatening local and international shipping. The terrorist group has intensified its maritime security-related activities in an attempt to turn their constant threat to international maritime navigation into a blackmail and a project that derives its legitimacy from any political process or settlement of the Yemeni crisis sponsored by the international and regional community.
Threat to the region
The Yemeni political analyst said that the international community, the United Nations and the permanent members of the Security Council should take a clear position on this serious threat and carry out their legal responsibilities in confronting the terrorist activities of the Iranian regime and its Houthi tool, which has become a serious threat to regional and international peace and security.
He explained that the Houthi militias pose a threat to local and international maritime security, and they affect fishing activities, the economy and social life practiced by residents of the western coasts, in addition to polluting the marine environment, which results in serious repercussions, pointing out that the goals of the Houthi, and behind him Iran, are to exploit the ongoing changes in the political process in Yemen, and thus impose another reality that suits his ambitions in the Red Sea coast, through a “policy of extortion,” in a situation similar to the one he practiced in the past.
