U.S. Senator Katie Britt, Colleagues Move to redesignate Iran-backed Houthis as Foreign Terrorist Organization

Washington D.C. –U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-Ala.) is calling on for the Biden Administration to redesignate Ansarallah often referred to as the Houthis to be a terrorist foreign group (FTO) in light of their enduring terrorist acts, their actions that aim to undermine the stability of regions, and also the security risk they represent towards their homeland of the United States, and, more recently their role in the current conflict with Israel and in the attacks against Israel the week before.

According to the Senator Britt who was the Trump Administration in January 2021 identified Houthis as an FTO. Houthis in the year 2021 as an FTO that the Biden Administration reversed the next month. After years of Iranian support and support, the Houthis possess one of the most advanced weapons of ballistic missiles as well as drones of Iran’s allies as well as proxy forces that they have employed to attack U.S. partners and interests.

“An continuous policy of apprehension by this administration Biden Administration only enlarges the power of Iranian regime Iranian regime to carry on its barbaric proxy attacks against innocent women, children as well as males, as apparent in the Houthi’s recent terror attacks, which have been prevented by defensive actions of Saudi Arabia and the United States and Saudi Arabia,” said Senator Britt. “It is vital that America conveys a message that demonstrates total and complete condemnation to Iran and the proxies of its brutality and unrelenting support to our allies in the region. The Houthis are terrorist groups and the Administration must treat them as such, while applying a broad, maximal pressure sanctions campaign against all Iranian terror proxy groups. To achieve peace, it is now the right time to be strong .”

Senator Britt last week joined Senator Steve Daines (R-Mont.) along with 12 other Senate colleagues to introduce the Standing against Houthi Aggression Act.This legislation would redesignate the Houthis as a terrorist foreign organization and impose specific sanctions against the group.

Cosponsors for the Standing against Houthi Aggression Actin in addition to senators Britt and Daines as well as senators Roger Marshall (R-Kans. ), Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Roger Wicker (R-Miss. ), John Barrasso (R-Wyo. ), Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo. ), Bill Cassidy (R-La. ), Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Pete Ricketts (R-Nebr. ) as well as John Kennedy (R-La. ).

The bill’s text is available in this link.

Furthermore the senator Britt last week joined senator Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) as well as thirteen of their Senate colleagues in delivering an open letter addressed to Secretary of State Antony Blinken calling on the Administration to redesignate the Houthis into an FTO.

Co-signers on the letter, along with senators Britt and Hagerty The list includes senators John Barrasso (R-Wyo. ), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Mike Braun (R-Ind. ), Bill Cassidy (R-La. ), Tom Cotton (R-Ark. ), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Steve Daines (R-Mont. ), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), James Lankford (R-Okla.), Roger Marshall (R-Kans. ), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) and Roger Wicker (R-Miss).

The complete letter is available here..