2024-01-10 08:29:32
Since October 7 and the start of the war in Gaza, Iran and groups loyal to it have escalated activities targeting American and Israeli interests in the region. These activities have begun to harm the interests of countries in the region, even those not neighboring Iran or not directly related to the conflict.
The Houthi attacks targeting international shipping lines through the Red Sea are now threatening the revenues of the Suez Canal, for example. As for Jordan, Amman continues its tireless efforts to confront drug trade and smuggling through pro-Iranian militias present in Syria.
Yemeni sources revealed that the Houthis fired a missile towards a ship in the southern Red Sea.
This comes at a time when British Defense Secretary Grant Shapps announced that a warship was heading towards the Red Sea to support the “Guardian of Prosperity” coalition to protect navigation in the region.
The British Defense Minister announced that a frigate named “HMS Richmond” was continuing its advance towards the region. This suggests intensifying pressure on the Houthis to lift the restriction on this sea line following the increasing economic repercussions.
On the political level, Britain confirms, through Foreign Minister David Cameron, that it will confront these Houthi attacks with Western countries.
Iran and the groups loyal to it… escalation in all directions
In his speech toradar” Sky News Arabia Head of the Regional Studies Program at the Middle East Center for Studies, Nabil Al-Atoum, says:
- The war that Jordan is waging on its northern border once morest drugs is an intentional war.
- Jordan has been suffering for two years from threats targeting its security and stability due to drug and weapons smuggling operations.
- The Jordanian side is trying to find the appropriate solution to limit drug smuggling operations with Syria, Russia, and Iran.
- Jordan faces an open war on all sides.
- Groups attempt to exploit the gateways to regional crises to attempt to cross into Jordan, taking advantage of the Gaza crisis.
- The issue is bigger than drug smuggling, but rather goes beyond that to an attempt to transfer chaos to Jordan and exhaust its capabilities at the expense of dealing with the Palestinian issue.
- Jordan discussed a range of options to deal with these challenges with the Syrian side.
- These factions and militias were created by the Iranians, and these agents were chosen in line with the armor theory.
- The Jordanian authorities were able to thwart the smuggling of 60 million Captagon pills into Jordanian territory.
For his part, the head of the Arab and Regional Studies Unit at the Al-Ahram Center for Studies, Mohamed Ezz Al-Arab, says that the current turmoil in the region and the region has led to the formation of active armed groups in several countries suffering from conflicts and exploiting the current situation to achieve illegal financial gains.
- We face hybrid alliances between organized crime groups and powerful individuals in the security services.
- Iran benefits from some tensions to greatly enhance and defend its interests, whether once morest neighboring countries or international powers, especially the United States.
- The Houthi side justifies in various ways that its goal is not to obstruct global trade, but rather to obstruct shipping commercial companies managed, owned, or linked to Israel or the interests of countries supporting Israel.
Jordan carries out raids inside Syria targeting drug traffickers’ hideouts
Writer and political researcher Mossadegh Pour confirms that what is happening in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Yemen will affect the interests of some neighboring countries, especially Egypt regarding the Suez Canal.
- The Houthis denied that they intercepted non-Israeli ships and that their attacks were carried out only once morest ships that served the Israeli military interest once morest Gaza.
- The important thing is not who these arms belong to, but we must look at what these arms do for Israel.
- It is necessary to search for parties incubating drugs in Jordan in order to reach a solution to the crisis.
- Drug trafficking is not just a proxy war, it is an organized criminal enterprise.
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