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Houthis Suggest Return to Red Sea Piracy as Iran Stares Down U.S. Fleet

2026-01-28

[Breitbart] The Iran's Houthi sock puppets

...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
terrorists of Yemen published an ominous video on Monday showing a ship on fire, captioned simply with the word “soon.”

Multiple media outlets confirming the publication of the video suggested that it could be a preview for the resumption of maritime terrorist in the Red Sea, which the Houthis engaged in for nearly two years in defense of Iran and the fellow jihadist terror organization Hamas. The Houthis, which consider themselves falsely to be the government of Yemen, “declared war” on Israel following the gruesome Hamas attack on the country on October 7, 2023. Both Hamas, a primarily Sunni terrorist organization, and the Houthis, a Shiite terrorist gang, rely heavily on financing and political support from Iran to operate.

The timing of the video, and another showing a specific commercial ship attack, follows President Donald Trump moving naval assets to the Middle East in response to the deadly repression of peaceful protests that began in Iran in December. The military confirmed on Monday that a U.S. Navy strike group traveled west in the Indian Ocean and arrived in territory controlled by U.S. Central Command. Trump himself told reporters on Thursday that a “big flotilla” and an “armada” of American naval assets was moving towards Iran in the event that Washington had to act to stop the massacre of Iranian protesters. Estimates of the death toll as a result of Tehran’s repression of the protests range from 5,000 to 35,000 at press time.

Following Trump’s confirmation of action, the Iranian regime has repeatedly threatened to go to war with the United States, erecting a massive billboard in Tehran this weekend showing images of destroyed fighter jets on an aircraft carrier. Iranian terror proxies and allies have also escalated their belligerent language towards America in the past week.

The Houthis, based in the Yemeni capital of Sana’a, engaged in over 100 attacks on random ships in the Red Sea, allegedly as part of a campaign to “blockade” the Israeli economy. Many of the ships had no obvious connection to Israel or any of Yemen’s enemies, however, and on multiple instances the Houthis bombed ships linked to allies such as Iran, China, or Russia. The campaign ended this summer after negotiations with President Donald Trump preceded by extensive American military activity to limit the Houthis’ terrorist reach.

In addition to the “soon” video, which did not offer any specifics on the identity of the ship involved or when the footage was from, Houthi media also shared a longer video describing and showing alleged “never-before-seen” footage of another Houthi terror attack on a British ship, the Marlin Luanda, an oil tanker the Houthis attacked in 2024.

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