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December 19, 2023

To Keep the Sea Lanes Open, the U.S. Must Strike Iran’s Allies Where It Hurts

The Houthis desire perpetual war, but fear humiliation.

With Yemen’s Tehran-backed Houthi militia escalating its attacks on shipping in the Red Sea as a way of supporting its fellow Iranian proxies in Lebanon and Gaza, Washington has put together an international task force to protect commercial vessels in the area. Ari Heistein provides some important background about the ongoing war in Yemen, and argues that America and its allies will have to act aggressively if they want to succeed:

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