Saudi-led strikes on the strategic Red Sea port city of Mokha killed at least six people and maimed eight others, a news agency affiliated with 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 JewsThey 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...
s said on Tuesday, as international calls mounted for the Iran-backed group in Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
to halt its fighting.
The Houthis have staged a lightning offensive in recent weeks to take over Yemen’s entire Red Sea coast, including Mokha, leaving the country’s Saudi-backed government scrambling to respond. The war in impoverished Yemen, which began in 2014 with the Houthi capture of the capital Sanaa, had been largely frozen since 2022 but resumed in July.
"Six civilians, including two children and a woman, were killed and eight others, including a child and a woman, were maimed in Saudi-led coalition
...
KABOOM!...
s on Mokha," the Houthi-affiliated news agency Saba reported on Tuesday.
On Monday, the UK and La Belle France said they would provide defensive assistance to Saudi Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start..., which the Houthis have repeatedly struck during the renewed conflict. That same day, the foreign ministers of the G7 condemned the "unacceptable continued strikes" waged from Yemen against Saudi Arabia and urged the Iran-backed group to immediately hold its fire.
"We call on the Houthis to immediately cease all military actions, all threats and attacks against civilian shipping, and to return to the political process in good faith," said the statement from leaders representing Canada, La Belle France, Germany, Italia, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States.
They also called on Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for
spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet
militiasto extend the regime's influence. The word
Iranis a cognate form of
Aryan.The abbreviation
IRGCis the same idea as
Stürmabteilung (or SA).The term
Supreme Guideis a the modern version form of either
Duceor
Führeror maybe both. They hate
"to end its arming of and support for the Houthis," alleging Tehran is in violation of past UN Security Council resolutions.
The statement came a day after the head of Yemen’s Saudi-backed governing body, Rashad al-Alimi, held a call with US President Donald Trump
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
to request American support against the pro-Iranian fighters, a source in Alimi’s office told AFP, echoing calls from Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
...Crown Prince and modernizer of Saudi Arabia as of 2016. The Turks hate him, so he must be all right, despite the occasional brutal murder of Qatar-owned journalists...
Trump did not promise military support, the source said, adding that the call was intended as a show of solidarity with Yemen’s embattled government. On Sunday, Trump reportedly called off airstrikes against the Houthis at the last minute.
UK PLEDGES SUPPORT FOR SAUDI ’DEFENSIVE’ MISSIONS
Other Western allies of Saudi Arabia are pledging assistance. UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham said Monday that Britannia has agreed to provide limited military support to Saudi Arabia to repel Houthi attacks.
UK officials say the agreement will start in the coming days, and involve one RAF Voyager refueling Saudi planes on "defensive" missions.
Burnham told news hounds as he flew to the United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
General Assembly in New York that he had agreed the Royal Air Force will provide air-to-air refueling of Saudi planes. The agreement is for a matter of weeks, but Burnham said it will be kept under review.
Burnham said he was "acting to secure the interests of Britannia and the wider region, because of course Saudi Arabia has been experiencing attack, is looking at potential further disruption, and we need to keep those pathways [for oil] open."
Britannia has condemned the Houthi attacks and said the UK will "work with partners to support regional stability, protect civilians and support humanitarian access."
FRANCE OFFERS TO HELP SECURE SAUDI ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE
La Belle France, meanwhile, is ready to work on "securing" Saudi energy infrastructure targeted by the Houthis, adopting a "strictly defensive approach," a diplomatic source said Monday.
"La Belle France is ready to contribute to securing Saudi energy infrastructure in Yanbu and along the East-West Pipeline, within the framework of a strictly defensive approach," the source said, emphasizing that "this in no way involves taking part in the conflict with the Houthis."
The Houthis have carried out attacks against facilities belonging to the Saudi oil giant Aramco in the Red Sea port city of Yanbu. The East-West Pipeline — a crucial crude oil export route — has also been shut down following drone attacks launched from Iraq, according to Riyadh.