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2025-03-06 Arabia
The U.S. has re-designated Yemen’s Houthis as a “Foreign Terrorist Organization, sanctions 7 big turbans
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] We knew here that's what they were all along.

US sanctions Houthi leaders, a day after reinstating terrorist designation

[IsraelTimes] Treasury announces sanctions against 7 leaders of Iran-backed Yemeni group in bid to cut off funds, stifle weapons supply

US President Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
’s administration sanctioned seven 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...
leaders and an individual who sent 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...
i civilians to fight for Russia in Ukraine on Wednesday, just a day after re-declaring the group a foreign terrorist organization.

The seven sanctioned leaders "smuggled military-grade items and weapon systems into Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen" and negotiated arms deals with Russia on behalf of the Iran-backed group, according to a statement from the US Treasury Department.

Since November 2023, the Houthis have carried out more than 100 attacks on ships off Yemen in support of Paleostinian gunnies fighting Israel, disrupting global shipping.

Throughout the war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
, the group repeatedly fired ballistic missiles and drones at Israel. While most were intercepted, the missile attacks caused extensive damage to buildings — including destroying an empty school building at nighttime — and on one occasion killed a man in Tel Aviv.

Among those sanctioned was Mohammed Abdulsalam, the Houthis’ "Oman-based front man," whom the Treasury Department said had played "a key role" in managing the group’s internal and external financing network.

The Treasury Department also sanctioned Mahdi Mohammed Hussein al-Mashat, whom it named as the chairman of the Houthi-aligned Supreme Political Council.

"By seeking weapons from a growing array of international suppliers, Houthi leaders have shown their intent to continue their reckless and destabilizing actions in the Red Sea region," said US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

"The US government is committed to holding the Houthis accountable for acquiring weapons and weapons components from suppliers in Russia, China, and 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 spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
to threaten Red Sea security," State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said in a separate statement.

The Treasury Department named the individual accused of procuring Yemeni civilians to fight for Russia in Ukraine as Abdulwali Abdoh Hasan al-Jabri, and accused the Houthi affiliate of fundraising for the group.

Through a private company, al-Jabri "facilitated the transfer of Yemeni civilians to Russian military units fighting in Ukraine in exchange for cash," the Treasury Department said.

On Tuesday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio
...The diminutive 13-year-old Republican U.S. Senator from Florida, Secretary of State in the second Trump administration...
announced the department had restored the "foreign terrorist organization" designation, which carries with it sanctions and penalties for anyone providing "material support" for the group.

In its waning days, Trump’s first Republican administration designated the Houthis a foreign terrorist organization, but the label was revoked by successor Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body....
over concerns it would stifle aid to Yemen, which was considered to be facing one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. After the Israel-Hamas
..always the voice of sweet reason...
war broke out, Biden imposed the lesser designation of the Houthis as a "specially designated global terrorist."

Besides the "foreign terrorist organization" announcement, the State Department’s Rewards for Justice program announced that it would pay up to $15 million for information that leads to the disruption of Houthi financing.
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