2024-01-12 22:46:44
(CNN) — US President Joe Biden said on Friday that it “does not matter” whether his administration officially classifies the Houthis as a “terrorist organisation”, because the United States and other countries would respond anyway to their attacks on ships in the Red Sea..
Biden added, in statements to reporters in Allentown, Pennsylvania: “It does not matter whether they have been classified or not. We have formed a group of countries that will say if they continue to act as they are doing: We will respond.”
In response to a question regarding his concern regarding the rise in oil prices as a result of tensions in the Middle East, Biden said that he is “very concerned, that is why we have to stop it.”
When asked regarding some Democrats who said he should have gotten congressional approval to launch strikes once morest the Houthis, Biden completely rejected their objections, saying: “They are wrong, and I was sent this morning when the strikes happened.”
The US and British militaries launched air strikes once morest multiple Houthi targets in Yemen on Thursday, in an important response following the United States and its allies warned the Iranian-backed armed group that it would bear the consequences of repeated drone and missile attacks on commercial shipping ships in the Red Sea, which it says… Houthis It is retaliation once morest Israel for its military campaign in Gaza.
It is noteworthy that the US President said, earlier on Friday, when asked whether he was willing to describe the Houthis as a terrorist group: “I think they are,” a classification that his administration removed from the organization but is considering reapplying it.
In 2021, the Biden administration reversed the Donald Trump administration’s last-minute decision to designate the Houthi rebels in Yemen as a “foreign terrorist organization.”
Earlier on Friday, the White House reiterated that it was reviewing its designation of the Houthis as “terrorists.”
US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said no decisions had been made, and he might not provide a timeline for how long the review would take.
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