As the Saudis continue to step up attacks in northern Yemen, the Houthis have announced that they will be halting all attacks on the Saudis, and are urging the Saudis to halt attacks as well and join peace efforts.
Houthi officials threatened more attacks if the Saudis ultimately ignored the call for peace. So far, the Saudis have not issued any statements one way or another about it.
The Houthis are responding to the Saudi escalation since the Houthis attacked Saudi oil refineries with drones, but the Saudis never publicly admitted the Houthis were behind it, meaning they’re likely to keep that narrative.
And yet after five years of fighting in Yemen, the Saudis clearly are showing some signs of war exhaustion, and even if they’re unlikely to accept a Houthi peace overture immediately, there may be at least some support for pursuing the process.
So what we have here is Iran telling the Houthis to cool it because their next attack will cause the US to directly attack Iran.
Meanwhile, the article above this says the Saudis just launched a new attack. Probably because MBS thinks Trump has his back – which Trump does. Except MBS is too stupid to realize that a war between Iran and the US will result in Saudi Arabia’s oil facilities being destroyed.
So the Houthis will have no choice but to continue their strikes inside Saudi Arabia, regardless of what Iran wants.
Since Iran probably sent all the necessary technical specifications to the Houthis earlier – assuming the Houthis didn’t obtain them on their own – there is no way Iran can prevent the Houthis from continuing strikes on Saudi Arabia.
So again, what does Trump do after the next attack? If he’s hoping new air defense systems will render the Houthi attacks ineffective and thus avoid having to strike Iran directly, I suspect he will be disappointed.
That is, if the fools who think he actually is trying to avoid an Iran war are correct, which they probably aren’t.