The Houthi terrorist militia is now begging the international community to intervene and stop the war. Muhammad al-Bukhaiti admitted as much tonight! This is one of the clearest signs of Houthi weakness we’ve seen in years! The last thing the world should do is rescue Iran’s proxies once again! Egypt has shown a willingness to shoulder its regional responsibility, with President Sisi declaring readiness to take necessary measures to defend Saudi Arabia if formally requested. Now Europe and America must step up! More military support for Saudi Arabia and Yemen’s legitimate government. More regional cooperation. More pressure on Iran’s terror network! No more diplomatic lifelines for the Houthis. No more giving Iran’s proxies time to regroup. It’s time to end Houthi rule and give Yemen back to the Yemeni people! 🇾🇪

The Houthis are no longer a Yemeni problem! For years, the world treated the Houthis as a local insurgency with a long reach. A militia in the mountains of Yemen. Dangerous, but far away. That picture is dead! According to the Wall Street Journal, Iranian intelligence is now helping the Houthis carry out their most sophisticated attacks yet against Saudi Arabia and its Yemeni allies. In September they took Mokha and ground around Bab al-Mandeb. They have hit Riyadh's main airport again and again this month. They mix infantry assaults with missiles and fiber-optic guided drones. This is not a tribal militia. This is an Iranian expeditionary force with a Yemeni flag. But the most important line in the report is one many will skim past. A UN panel found that the Houthis had established joint operations rooms in Lebanon and Iraq. Look at a map! Lebanon sits on Syria's western border. Iraq sits on its eastern border. Syria is in the middle. That is not a coincidence. That is a pincer. When Assad fell, Iran lost more than an ally. It lost the bridge that connected Tehran to the Mediterranean. Syria freed itself from the Iranian orbit, and for the first time in decades Damascus could choose its own friends. It chose Riyadh. It chose the Arab world. Tehran does not accept defeat. It reroutes. Iraq has become the new hub of the so-called axis. Hezbollah is rebuilding in southern Lebanon. And now the most reckless member of the network, the one that fires on airports and shipping lanes without hesitation, has a seat at the table on both sides of Syria! The Houthis have one quality the others lack. They do not fear escalation. Distance has protected them for a decade. Hezbollah calculates. Iraqi factions worry about Baghdad's budget. The Houthis do not. Put that mindset into operations rooms next door to Syria and the risk changes shape. The new Syria is fragile. Its borders are long and porous. Its security forces are still being built. An axis that lost Damascus does not need to retake it. It only needs to make it fail. There is another layer. Saudi Arabia has become one of the main backers of Syria's recovery. Every missile the Houthis fire at Riyadh is also a message to Damascus: your new friends can be made to pay! Riyadh even invited the Houthis to talks in Oman in July. They refused. That tells you whose timetable they follow! So what should be done? First, stop treating Yemen, Lebanon, Iraq and Syria as four separate files. Iran sees one battlefield. So must we! Second, Baghdad must choose. A state cannot host operations rooms for a militia that bombs its Arab neighbours and still call itself sovereign! Third, Beirut must enforce its own border. Syria cannot be expected to guard both sides of it alone! Fourth, Washington must not hesitate. Tehran is betting that it will! Syria escaped Iran's orbit at enormous cost. Half a million dead. Millions displaced. A country rebuilt from ruins. Iran has not accepted the divorce. The Houthis are how it intends to contest it!

The Houthis are escalating on three fronts at once, and Yemenis and Saudis are paying for it. Last night, Iran-backed Houthi terrorists struck Maashiq Presidential Palace in Aden, the seat of Yemen's government. Yemen's Health Minister reports 5 killed and 16 injured. In Saudi Arabia, the Houthi missile campaign has turned on civilian airports. The October 10 strike on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh killed 12 people and injured 309, according to Saudi authorities. It was the third attack on the airport that week. In Taiz, Yemen's third-largest city, the Houthis have cut the last main road to government-held areas. More than a million people now face shortages of fuel, food and medicine! This is not resistance. It is a campaign of terror against Yemen's legitimate government, its people and its neighbours! The Houthis are not liberating Yemen. They are holding it hostage for Iran! Yemen deserves a future free from Houthi rule and Iranian interference. 🇾🇪🇸🇦

The Houthis have a serious problem: Sanaa is being penetrated! Tonight, they acknowledged a security breach and announced the arrest of a cell they accuse of carrying out four operations across the capital. This follows a string of reported breaches targeting sensitive sites, command facilities and military personnel. Their security apparatus is clearly under pressure! The Houthis can arrest people and issue statements, but they cannot simply make these repeated breaches disappear! And remember: Operation Dawn of Yemen has SIX phases. The campaign is still in Phase One! Expect further pressure on Houthi military and command structures in Sanaa as the operation progresses. The Houthis are not untouchable. Their grip on Yemen is not as secure as they want everyone to believe! 🇾🇪🇸🇦