https://aljazeera.com/news/us-redesignates-yemens-houthis-a-glob…
The United States government has announced it is once again designating Yemen’s Houthi rebels as a “terrorist” organisation.
Washington’s move on Wednesday to relist the group as “specially designated global terrorists” comes after the US launched strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen in response to the rebels’ attacks on vessels in the Red Sea.
These attacks by the Iran-allied group since November have disrupted maritime trade between Asia and Europe.
The Houthis say their attacks are aimed at ships with links to Israel and they will continue attacking targets until Israel’s war on Gaza stops.
“In response to these continuing threats and attacks, the United States announced the designation of Ansarallah, also known as the Houthis, as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist,” White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said in statement.
“This designation is an important tool to impede terrorist funding to the Houthis, further restrict their access to financial markets, and hold them accountable for their actions.”
The designation does not take effect for 30 days, US officials said.
“If the Houthis cease their attacks in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, the United States will immediately reevaluate this designation,” Sullivan said.
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An SDGT designation is doing something to do something. Like an FTO designation, it’s toothless and won’t have any desired effect. Where the FTO would have ushered in a certain catastrophe, an SDGT carries only a severe risk of catastrophe.
Treasury licenses limit legal exposure for key private sector industries like banks and importers of food and medicine…but those industries have a history of looking superficially at risk. They don’t need yet another reason to stop doing business in Yemen.
The FTO designation in 2021 came with assurances too, and industry’s substantially cut imports to Yemen nonetheless. The Biden admin is playing with Yemenis’ lives, all because it doesn’t want to be seen doing nothing.
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Biden’s SDGT ploy allows him plausible deniability concerning inaction while also ensuring that U.S. strength cannot be applied to Houthi forces in any real capacity besides telegraphed and ineffective air strikes against a rebel force that has made a living of dodging similar Saudi strikes for years.
They aren’t doing the full FTO designation.
They are doing the weaker SDGT designation - with a delay.
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