The Biden administration is expected to 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
      28·
      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
        54·
        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
          44·
          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
            36·
            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
              73·
              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)