American newspaper: Great pressure on Biden to take strict steps against the Houthi militia

English - Sunday 12 December 2021 الساعة 03:59 pm
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The Wall Street Journal said that the administration of US President Joe Biden has received great international and US political and media pressure during the past weeks to take tougher steps against the Iran-backed Houthi militia, through the support of Saudi Arabia, which leads the coalition in Yemen.

On Tuesday, December 7, 2021, the US Senate voted not to block President Biden's offer to sell weapons worth $650 million to the Saudis, as the deal includes 280 air-to-air missiles, but this should not prevent the Saudis from filling the additional need for more interceptor missiles against  Houthi missiles and drones.

Amidst internal American pressure against the Biden administration's inaction towards the Houthis and its continuous pressure on Riyadh, the American press launched an attack on the Biden administration in conjunction with moves by American lawmakers to punish the group, which followed the storming of the embassy in Sana'a late last month.

A number of members of the US Congress believe that the Biden administration does not deal strictly with the Iranian-backed Houthis, as it launched this by canceling the group's designation as a terrorist organization in February 2021 with the justification of obstructing relief efforts.  And at a time when the American press is talking about measures taken by the American administration that expanded the influence of the Houthis, and made them more daring to escalate the military, and threaten Washington's allies in the Middle East.

The American newspaper believes that the Biden administration's pledges at the beginning of its entry into the White House not to sell arms to the Saudis are considered an olive branch for the Houthis to negotiate an end to the war, but instead they escalated and doubled their cross-border attacks on Saudi lands and inside Yemen.

It noted that Iran continues to supply and support the Houthis, which does not see the need to stop when its proxies win.  She explained that drones and missiles are not well targeted and sometimes hit civilian targets if they are not intercepted, and that there are more than 70,000 Americans in the Kingdom who could become victims.

The newspaper revealed that Saudi Arabia launched an internal reassessment of its strategy in Yemen, and asked the Biden administration to provide intelligence and military support to target the sites used by the Houthis to launch drones and missiles.