The Houthis in Yemen have been quiet lately, claiming that they wouldn’t be bombing Israeli targets, or shipping in the Red Sea, while the ceasefire holds in Gaza. But in the last week, they announced that because Israel had instituted a blockade of Gaza, they would resume their drone and missile attacks on both the Jewish state and on all shipping trying to enter the Red Sea. The Trump administration then ordered the Air Force to launch a series of preemptive attacks, raining down bombs on the Houthis in their hideouts their bases, their port at Hodeidah, and their capital at Sana’a. The American attacks are supposed to continue for many days to come. An Iranian general, Hossein Salami, has threatened to “respond” to the American attacks, but this is mere bluster. After all, Iran promised to launch devastating attacks on Israel after Israel’s October 26, 2024 attack on the Islamic Republic; now almost four months have passed, and there has still been no Iranian retaliation.
The latest series of attacks on the Houthis — which will continue, apparently, until the Houthis cease to fire on international shipping — is meant to accomplish two things. First, the Americans are destroying stores of weapons that would otherwise have been used against both Israel and the ships that try to enter the Red Sea. Second, and even more importantly, the Americans are sending a message to the Houthis’ backer, Iran, reminding the Islamic Republic that its last ally still standing in the region, the Houthis, can be taken down by a sustained bombing campaign, leaving Iran to face the Americans and the Israelis alone. These attacks are also a potent sign of America’s determination to do whatever it takes to ensure that the Islamic Republic never acquires nuclear weapons. Just days before the attacks on the Houthis began, Trump sent a letter to Iran offering to start negotiations about that country’s nuclear program; the Iranians rejected it; the next step by America was to launch the attacks on the Houthis, in order to remind Iran of what tremendous damage the Americans can inflict on its Yemenite ally and, by extension, on Iran itself. More on the attack, and the message it was meant to convey, can be found here: “‘Message to Iran’: US launches large-scale strikes on Houthis in Yemen, officials confirm,” Jerusalem Post, March 15, 2025:
The United States struck Houthi targets in Yemen on Saturday evening in a message to Iran, at a time when the administration is proposing to open negotiations on its nuclear program, a US official told The Jerusalem Post.
The strikes will last “days, possible weeks” an official told Reuters….
As of March 16, there were 32 Houthis killed in the ongoing strikes.
Now the airport at Sana’a has been hit, and, one assumes, damaged enough so that the Islamic Republic of Iran can no longer deliver weapons by air to the Houthis. By sea will also be difficult, because in July, September, and December of 2024, Israeli planes repeatedly struck the port at Hodeidah, each attack more deadly than the next.
In a week, or two, as the attacks against Houthi targets continue, we will see if the Houthis are able to lob a drone or two at shipping in the Red Sea, as a sign of their resilience against the “American aggression,” or if they will think better of it, and by saying and doing nothing at all, will be silently signaling that “we’ve stopped our drone-and-missile campaign. Now please stop the bombing.” And America will have won.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Has it been confirmed that the attack on the Houthis has taken out a lot of their leadership?
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Has it been confirmed that the attack on the Houthis has taken out a lot of their leadership?
gravenimage says
Of course, the Houthis claim that all the dead are women and children–no matter this being of course complerely implausible.
Yaakov Holansky says
I certainly wouldn’t call it American ‘aggression’ albeit you didn’t mean it in the context that it could be interpreted. I would define it as defensive preemptive action or clearing the Suez for safe commercial passage AND stopping the terrorism towards Israel..
OLD GUY says
Correctly said Yaakov.
Walter Sieruk says
First ,President Trump well understands that bombings the Muslims terrorists of Houthis is the only way to sent those Islamic savages in the only language that they are able to understand.
As Thomas Jefferson had, rightly, declared, “With every barbarous people…force is law.”
Second ,the Houthis are nothing but stooges of that “mullah regime” of Iran.
For that hostile and vicious Islamic regime of Iran has the vast amount of money to fund, support and supply its proxy jihad terror/murder “organizations,” as the Houthis, Hamas and Hezbollah to use to as its tools to achieve its schemed Islamic agenda .
The Jihadists of those three Islamic terror/murder entities have no idea, at all ,that they are only the useful idiots of those in power in Iran and sit home safe when all the death dealing violent warfare is occurring.
Walter Sieruk says
First ,President Trump well understands that bombings the Muslims terrorists of Houthis is the only way to sent those Islamic savages in the only language that they are able to understand.
As Thomas Jefferson had, rightly, declared, “With every barbarous people…force is law.”
Second ,the Houthis are nothing but stooges of that “mullah regime” of Iran.
For that hostile and vicious Islamic regime of Iran has the vast amount of money to fund, support and supply its proxy jihad terror/murder “organizations,” as the Houthis, Hamas and Hezbollah to use to as its tools to achieve its schemed Islamic agenda .
The Jihadists of those three Islamic terror/murder entities have no idea, at all ,that they are only the useful idiots of those in power in Iran and sit home safe when all the death dealing violent warfare is occurring.
Walter Sieruk says
First ,President Trump well understands that bombings the Muslims terrorists of Houthis is the only way to sent those Islamic savages in the only language that they are able to understand.
As Thomas Jefferson had, rightly, declared, “With every barbarous people…force is law.”
Second ,the Houthis are nothing but stooges of that “mullah regime” of Iran.
For that hostile and vicious Islamic regime of Iran has the vast amount of money to fund, support and supply its proxy jihad terror/murder “organizations,” as the Houthis, Hamas and Hezbollah to use to as its tools to achieve its schemed Islamic agenda .
The Jihadists of those three Islamic terror/murder entities have no idea, at all ,that they are only the useful idiots of those in power in Iran and sit home safe when all the death dealing violent warfare is occurring.
Patrick says
Regards the Houthis, bomb the hell out of them, til there are no more Houthis!
Walter Sieruk says
The dangerous and murderous jihad terror entities Houthis , Hamas and Hezbollah are all made from the same cloth . Which is the fabric that is the religion of Islam.
Walter Sieruk says
The dangerous and murderous jihad terror entities Houthis , Hamas and Hezbollah are all made from the same cloth . Which is the fabric that is the religion of Islam.
James Lincoln says
Just wondering if Pres. Trump is also preparing an MC-130 transport plane armed with a MOAB…
James Lincoln says
Just wondering if Pres. Trump is also preparing an MC-130 transport plane armed with a MOAB…
gravenimage says
US Bombing of Houthis in Yemen was a Message to Iran
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I hope so.
Ralph says
Bombing the Houthis is only a tactical maneuver. Blasting the refineries and nuclear weapons manufacturing facilities in Iran is the strategic maneuver that needs to be utilized now. Why the foot dragging?