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msn.com - Shippers wary of red sea routes despite houthi pledge to end targetingFor more than a year, the Houthis have used missiles and drones to target commercial ships and naval vessels sent to protect them in the Red Sea, once one of the world’s busiest trade routes. Shippers have taken to sending vessels around the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa instead.
The Houthis have attacked more than 100 vessels in the Red Sea since Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel sparked the war in Gaza.
In an email to shippers, the Houthis said they wouldn’t attack U.S. and British vessels while a cease-fire was in effect. The group also this month released 25 crew members of the cargo vessel Galaxy Leader, which they had seized in November 2023.The Houthis can't tell the difference between an Israeli ship and an American one. But who can?
The Iranians who are giving them targeting instructions. For those of you who insist on not applying logic and demand instant evidence of all things, here you go:
wsj.com - Iranian spy ship helps houthis direct attacks on red sea vesselsIran’s paramilitary forces are providing real-time intelligence and weaponry, including drones and missiles, to Yemen’s Houthis that the rebels are using to target ships passing through the Red Sea, Western and regional security officials said.
Tracking information gathered by a Red Sea surveillance vessel controlled by Iran’s paramilitary forces is given to the Houthis, who have used it to attack commercial vessels passing through the Bab el-Mandeb strait in recent days, according to the officials.For Iran, the calculus is quite simple: If the Houthis shoot another missile at one of ours, their surveillance vessel dies. That day. I wouldn't even waste an LRASM on it; just have a pair of F/A-18s do a leisurely fly-by. One lases the target, the other drops a 2,000lb JDAM. Problem solved. Given the precision of the weapon, the amount of explosives and relative lack of armor that ship would go down in...maybe 15 minutes.
Let's hope the Iranians understand that.
