Posted on 03/08/2026 8:32:21 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
This wasn't exactly unexpected; as Operation Epic Fury continues the systemic destruction of Iran's theocratic regime, one of Iran's proxy terror groups has entered the chat. In Yemen, the Shiite, Iran-backed Houthis are now putting out the same kind of gaseous emissions we're accustomed to hearing from groups like this.
Iran is apparently trying to talk them back a little. We'll see how that works out.
The Iran-backed Houthi terrorist movement has yet to enter the conflict on Iran's side but in recent days has been ratcheting up its rhetoric in support of Tehran, with its leader, Abdul Malik al-Houthi, declaring that it was prepared to enter the war against the U.S. and Israel if necessary.
"Regarding military escalation and action, our fingers are on the trigger, ready to respond at any moment should developments warrant it," al-Houthi said on Thursday.
"The reason why the Houthis have not intervened is they are last line of resistance for the axis. Especially after other axis members were degraded," Nadwa Al-Dawsari, an expert on Yemen and an associate fellow at the Middle East Institute, told Fox News Digital.
This isn't the time for the Houthis to be kicking up their heels; if their leadership had the brains of a wheel of cheese, they'd know that. The only attention they are liable to draw by attacking their most likely target - Saudi Arabia - is going to include, just like in Iran, a suitable application of high explosives. If we've learned anything in the last week, it's that the United States and Israel aren't playing patty-cake anymore, and the other Gulf States are fast running out of patience as well.
Al-Dawsari, who has written extensively about Yemen and the Houthis, said: "I think the Houthis will intervene at some point. The longer the war continues, the more likely the Houthis will intervene. I think what the Houthis want to do — and they have been itching for a while to do — is to attack the Saudis. If the Saudis intervene, the Houthis will find a reason to attack the Saudis."
That would be the biggest military misjudgment since Napoleon's march on Moscow. This, though, is the interesting bit:
Al-Dawsari said another reason why the Houthis have yet to join the conflict is that it's not in the interests of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) "to drag the Houthis into a suicidal war." She argues "If the Iranian regime collapses, and if a new regime emerges, I think the IRGC will regroup in Yemen or Somalia. Yemen is the key ally."
A key ally - to whom?
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Here's the thing: With each passing day, it's becoming more and more apparent that when this thing is wrapped up, there won't be any Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Their members will either be fled, surrendered, or occupying a six-foot patch of dirt. Without Iran backing them, the Houthis may well find themselves about as popular as a red-headed orphan at a family picnic. Without Iran, they don't exist, and with or without Iran, they don't stand much of a chance if they attack any of their neighbors.
The best thing the Houthis could do right now is to keep a low profile until they have a better idea how this is all likely to end up. Right now, if they attack Saudi Arabia, that would likely be suicidal. They would be presenting themselves as a bunch of nails to several regional and one global power who have lots of hammers and lots of men anxious to wield them.
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And the MSM is ready to blame Trump, and not whoever attacks, when it happens.
The Houti’s?
Aren’t they on par with the Somalians, comparing one failed State to another?
I guess they will have been mixed in with the general American public, carrying instructions.
That could present a danger, just as that African man in Texas was a danger two weeks back.
RE: Aren’t they on par with the Somalians, comparing one failed State to another?
Yes. And consider these:
* We have a significant Somali community in the USA. Has anybody asked the question — Where do their sympathies lie?
* The Straight of Hormuz is already a choking point for shipping of oil and gas, The Houthis could create ADDITIONAL trouble in the Red Sea, another shipping chokepoint.
The Houthis need to be reduced to the sand flea stage as they are totally antithetical to Western Civ.
H’mm.
Why is that a familiar name?
Western Civ developed tech should be haram to Islamists.
Mad Mo’ would want it to be so.
I hope Trump has a plan to ‘dis-empower’ these Houthis in short and permanent order! We don’t have many true allies when it comes to confronting warlike conflict.
Bring it on, the US will kill them all too.
Without Iran as a client state all of Hamas, Hezbollah, and teh Houthis cease to exist. None of them have any indigenous weapons programs.
Had to laugh...the IRGC will “regroup in...Somalia.” Look out Minneapolis, they are coming your way.
A growing number of Americans are ready for the enemdia to show their photos (both the real ones and the staged ones) of dead Somalians and Houthis. These patriots will ignore the wailing and gnashing of teeth just as if these photos were of the destruction of Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan in 1945.
That's why Iran is the side rejecting ceasefire requests and keeps firing missiles that are hitting Israel and our bases?
Trump attacked Yemen a few months ago with a very intensified bombing campaign, and it didn’t accomplish one damn thing.
Hey Hputhi guys,
y’all are in Yemen, right?
Do you know the U.S. has an aircraft carrier right off your shore
that have a whole bunch of angry sailors and naval pilots on board
because their toilets are backed up?
I’m not concerned about the Houthis one bit. It’s the Blowfish that I’m worried about.
What a sweet dream, Operation Epic Fury destroying not only the Iranian Jihadis, but the Houthi pirates and the Somalian fraudsters as well. Everyone who once shouted "Death to America" is dead!
The Houthi’s seem bent on becoming the Who?these.
I will take notice and avoid any cruise itinerary in the gulf of woman or red sea.
Gulf of Oman not Woman, Mr autocorrect.
Bkmk
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