The Biden administration is expected to soon announce plans to redesignate Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen as specially designated global terrorists.

The Biden administration is expected to soon announce plans to redesignate Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen as specially designated global terrorists, according to two people familiar with the White House decision and a U.S. official.

The move comes as the Houthis have launched dozens of attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea. The group says it has attacked the ships in response to Israel’s military operations in Gaza in the aftermath of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel.

The three people familiar with the decision were not authorized to comment and requested anonymity to discuss the matter ahead of the expected formal announcement.

  • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
    39·
    10 months ago

    Your country is not doing enough enough to stop {insert country with deranged policies tolerated by your government} from committing {insert crime}. Please send me your address so I can torch your house.

    This logic would justify terrorist attacks against everyone and everything with the exception of Antarctic penguins.

    • mathemachristian[he]@lemm.ee
      64·
      10 months ago

      No no its

      Your country is actively supporting {insert country with deranged policies supported by your government} from committing {insert warcrime}. Please send me your address so I can torch your house.

      Which, as a German, I find fair.

      • PugJesus@kbin.social
        55·
        10 months ago

        So you don’t mind us torching the Houthis’ houses either? Considering that they’ve undertaken deranged policies and are committing war crimes?

        • mathemachristian[he]@lemm.ee
          58·
          10 months ago

          Nope they haven’t. They are justified in their attacks. Just stop the genocide. That’s it. Also the US and Allies have been doing that anyway for the past decade or so what’s the difference.

          • PugJesus@kbin.social
            94·
            10 months ago

            Nope they haven’t.

            Oh, okay, pulling civilians’ fingernails off and burning their genitals and murdering LGBT people aren’t deranged policies or war crimes in your eyes. Good to know.

            • rambaroo@lemmy.world
              35·
              10 months ago

              Oh look, the neolibs suddenly care about Yemenis when they can use them to justify their colonizer bloodlust.

              • PugJesus@kbin.social
                63·
                10 months ago

                “Houthis attacking random civilian ships is okay because war crimes”

                “So the reverse, attacking Houthis at random, for war crimes, is okay too, right?”

                “THE COLONIZER’S BLOODLUST SHOWS ITSELF”

                Sorry for using someone’s logic against them to show it’s morally and intellectually bankrupt, I know that’s frightening to people with a sophomoric view of the world.

              • PugJesus@kbin.social
                53·
                10 months ago

                Targeting civilians is a war crime, torture is a war crime, and Yemen is in a state of civil war.

      • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
        14·
        10 months ago

        Easy one then, tell me your address, I’ve a Deutschlandticket so I can do full country fire delivery. Do you feel personally responsible for which genocide that Germany tolerates? Palestine by Israel? Uighurs by China? Or any other in particular?

        (If anyone from the BfV reads this, I’m being sarcastic)