Trump Orders Process to Designate the Houthis as Foreign Terrorist Organization Amid Red Sea Shipping Crisis

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order initiating the process to designate Yemen’s Ansar Allah, aka the Houthis, as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. The move comes in response to escalating attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea region over the past 15 months.

The Houthi rebels, backed by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force, have launched over 100 attacks on vessels transiting the critical Bab al-Mandeb strait, resulting in at least four civilian maritime casualties and two ships sunk. These attacks have forced commercial vesse…