Posted on 07/14/2026 7:18:38 PM PDT by BeauBo
Riyadh strikes Yemeni airport (Sana’a) after Trump backs military action against Houthis
The strike on Monday (13 July) damaged the runway and prevented an Iranian airliner from landing in the Yemeni capital, which is controlled by the Houthis, a pro-Tehran proxy militia...
...Two US officials told Axios that Donald Trump gave Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia his support for the military action...
...The incident breaks a four-year truce between Riyadh and the Shia militia, which followed a decade-long war that killed approximately 377,000 people, according to United Nations estimates, most of which were caused by starvation and the collapse of infrastructure...
...Tensions reignited on July 3 after an Iranian airliner landed at Sana’a, despite reported warnings from Saudi warplanes not to. (potential re-establishment of an airbridge between Iran and its Houthi proxy in Yemen)...
...Tehran has threatened to use the Houthis to impose a maritime blockade in the Red Sea.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
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Some speculate that the mutual defense treaty that Saudi Arabia signed with Pakistan last year, could possibly result in Pakistani forces getting involved in Yemen, which could make it very different from the last go round Between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis in Yemen.
Iraq’s new Prime Minister is in D.C., and disarming Iran’s proxies in Iraq has got to be among the topics.
Meanwhile, Iran’s other major proxies, Hizbollah and Hamas, are having their butts handed to them.
What a time for a full naval blockade, and having your main rail lines severed...
Saudis are fed up. So are others like the Kurds, UAE, Kuwait, Jordan and Israel.
Trump was in Turkey and I’m sure a lot of it had to do with Iran. Trump has talked with everyone in the entire area.
No one trusts the psychomullahs(except the US islamocommie party).
The shiite will hit the fan and there will be invading troops from different countries.
The topic is that the U.S. pulling out entirely from Iraq.
Yep, that’s right. Iran is now fully an Iraqi proxy.
Congrats neocons, is this the regime change you were looking for?
The United States is scheduled to officially end its 23-year military presence in Iraq by September 30, shifting from a military footprint to an economic partnership. U.S. forces have been evacuating major military sites like the Ain al-Asad airbase, with remaining operations transitioning toward expanding U.S. corporate and energy ties in the region.The withdrawal process involves the following key details:
Timeline: The U.S. plans to finalize its military exit by September 30, after which bilateral relations will pivot primarily toward energy and corporate contracts
US forces remained in Iraq, at a northern airbase mainly, as a response force to threats from Iran. Since Iran is no longer a military threat to the region, we no longer need to be there. Trump has long made clear his desire to vacate the Mideast entirely, once it is stabilized. Iran has been the primary destabilizing force, and has been largely neutralized. Let Iraq deal with their domestic pro-Iranian factions. Let Saudis finish the job on the Houthis. Let Israel finish the job on Hezbollah.. Once we finish the job with Iran, we’re going home.
Haven’t heard even one supportive word from a Democrat not named Fetterman. It’s the craziest thing. The Democrats want The country to lose a war to Iran and that is unfortunately without hyperbole.
Apparently Europe can’t decide whether to oppose or support Islamic terrorism. Putting Iran and its proxies down would go a long way towards ending it. Trump has created the opportunity and EU nations have proved themselves to be utterly feckless.
Incorrect. They were there to fight ISIS. Incidentally, ISIS was created by the gulf monarchies to overthrow Assad. Turkey protected what was left of ISIS on their border after they were routed by the U.S. and Russia in Trump’s first term.
Turkey then gave them the green light to invade Damascus while Biden was a lame duck and stuck Trump with the result - a former ISIS commander on our Wanted List as the new (Sunni) dictator.
Since Iran is no longer a military threat to the region, we no longer need to be there.
They haven’t allowed those bases to be used against Iran.
You’re factually incorrect to assert they were intended or used against Iran.
The attacks on Iran have pissed off the Shiite militias in Iraq, which is why the Iraqis want us to get out. They’re tired of 35 years of being a war zone.
Trump has long made clear his desire to vacate the Mideast entirely, once it is stabilized.
Trump was elected because people want us to get out of the Middle East.
Only fools think the last 35 years of waging regime change war after regime change war has somehow stabilized the Middle East. All they’re done is further destabilized Africa and the Middle East and created millions and millions of refugees from same that the left has opened our borders to.
The American (and European) people have suffered a nasty combo from bad right and left wing policies.
Iran has been the primary destabilizing force, and has been largely neutralized. Let Iraq deal with their domestic pro-Iranian factions. Let Saudis finish the job on the Houthis.
They couldn’t do it the first time and they invaded with M-1 tanks and Bradleys backed by Apaches and F-15Es. They managed starve a few hundred thousand civilians in a blockade and famine worse than Gaza that the news ignored, but they quit.
They quit because the Houthis sent a drone into one of their major refinery complexes, and they realized their oil wealth sits on for all intents and purposes a Fabergé egg.
So your fantasy of regime change is just that, a fantasy.
Let Israel finish the job on Hezbollah.
It’s just another land grab. The people they’re taking land from will fight back and they’ll claim that’s justification to take more - never ending.
Once we finish the job with Iran, we’re going home.
More fantasy. We’ll revisit in September for your updated assessment and spin.
I went through this exercise on this board over two decades ago with the neocons fever dreams about nation building in Iraq and making it a base for a new stable, peaceful Middle East.
“Iran is now fully an Iraqi proxy.”
I think that you meant it the other way around, but even so, I would disagree. Although Iran exercises a lot of influence through its Iraqi proxies, many elements of Iraqi society oppose that influence.
With the Iranian regime short of funds and weapons to support their proxies, there is no way that their Iraqi opponents are not aware of the opportunity that presents.
The American troop withdrawal has been planned since the Biden Administration. The Iraqis can fight it out among themselves - they pretty much always do.
I wrote this on another thread before I saw this one:
People miss the point about what Trump is trying to accomplish in the Middle East and Iran-he is trying to reset the board.
And this is part of it.
Iran has been holding the world hostage for nearly half a century with their threats to choke off the Strait of Hormuz.
The Gulf States were terrified of them, when they weren’t just moderately aligned with them, hoping to be the last one eaten.
Look at what has happened now. Iran has openly attacked Gulf States, and they have had enough, and are hitting back on their own without our help. And they have embarked on a crash course of building pipelines to bypass the Strait.
They should have done it decades ago, but they are doing this now.
Trump and his team are succeeding.
FTFY
Passed time to end the stupid wars and bring home the troops.
Yes, the US Islamocommie party is on the side of terrorists including the IRGC and their psychomullahs, Antifa, Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis, drug cartels, Muslim Brotherhood, Trantifa ……etc.
The British didn’t colonize these areas so much as capture them.
The reason they captured them was to safeguard British access to the jewel in the British crown - India.
India since 1757 had added billions of pounds to the British economy, transforming it from a second rate power to a hyperpower
Houthi rebels attack Saudi oil pipeline
05/14/2019May 14, 2019
A Saudi minister says that a crude oil pipeline in Riyadh province has been attacked by Yemeni drones. The attack follows Saudi claims of sabotage attempts on two of its oil tankers off the United Arab Emirates.
Pres. Trump made some kind of deal with the Houthis about how we wouldn’t attack them if they left the Red Sea shipping alone. I think he’s trying to get the locals to start kicking ass in their neighborhood. This is a good reason for them, but the Saudis are pretty much fat, feckless lazy boys who don’t really want to do anything. Short of having Laurence ride into Yemen on camels, it won’t change.
I don’t know what you mean by “FTFY”.
“India since 1757 had added billions of pounds to the British economy, transforming it from a second rate power to a hyperpower”
And now India has taken over Britain.
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