- Iran is helping the Houthis try to secure Russian anti-ship missiles, Reuters reported.
- These could improve their attacks on ships in the Red Sea and threaten US warships, an expert said.
- Two officials said Houthis met Russians twice in Tehran this year, and more meetings are coming.
Iran is helping the Houthi rebels try to secure Russian anti-ship missiles, Reuters reported, citing three Western and regional sources.
Two regional officials aware of the talks said the Houthis and Russians have met at least twice this year in Tehran, where discussions to supply the missiles were underway.
They added that more meetings are expected in the coming weeks.
Imagine if instead of supporting Israel with more and more weapons, the US and its allies had imposed an arms embargo and trade embargo for everything but food and medicine. We wouldn’t be in this situation, tens of thousands of people would still be alive, and the Houthis couldn’t claim more legitimacy and flex their geopolitical location like this.
Does Russia have any functional weapons that they can spare at the moment?
Do they have boats left in the black sea?
Oh no.
Holy shit guys.
An international power might leverage a proxy war to use cutting edge weapons against an enemy nation that they otherwise wouldn’t be able to.
Does that strike anyone else as a familiar refrain?
Ah, yes, the enemy nation of civilian shipping. Truly dastardly.
Just as a familiar refrain? It strikes me as basically half our GDP.
Nothing important to say but this is hilarious.
Absolutely.
But I was thinking more recent history. Like how the US is supplying advanced weaponry to Ukraine.
Pointing out such hypocrisy is my favorite passtime nowadays. And whether it’s here, reddit. Twitter, etc. It always gets me downvotes. Kinda disappointing that so many people are still blinded by nationalism.
I feel you. I have that autism where I tend to jump in convos to correct facts and people take it as the biggest insult and assume it means I think exactly the opposite of everything they say. I’ve found it’s easier for me to just lean into it since it’s going to happen regardless, I may as well be the one dictating the terms.
What enemy nation are the Houthis at war with?
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Good.
Iran and the Houthis are doing what every ethical nation should be doing: enforcing a trade embargo on Israel for the crime of genocide.
Yeah, you go Houthis, sink that oil tanker owned by Singapore, with a destination of Egypt, in your own waters to create an environmental catastrophe! That will really show Israel!
If any tanker tried to defy US sanctions on Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea, or Russia it would be sunk the same way.
If any tanker tried to defy US sanctions on Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea, or Russia it would be sunk the same way.
Do you know what sanctions are?
Do you realize that there are countless tankers going to ALL of those countries, at this very moment, and have been for decades?
Yes none of the current sanctions regimes constitute a complete embargo. That does not change the underlying logic that they are enforced by violence.
Can you give an example of a time when any of those sanctions was enforced by violence?
Whenever someone is convicted of criminal export and trade sanction violations they are subject to 20 years in prison.
Yes none of the current sanctions regimes constitute a complete embargo. That does not change the underlying logic that they are enforced by violence.
… so you don’t know what sanctions are. Or, for that matter, an embargo.
I honestly think it would be boarded and detained.
I’m not claiming the US is comparatively virtuous, I just don’t think they’d sink trade ships. Warships? Yeah.
Iran doesn’t act on ethic, it act on interests
Same as the US to be fair,this isnt enlightening or a point of note
I don’t disagree
Thankfully Iran’s interests align with ethics in this case.
