The U.S. and the international community can no longer ignore or reward the malign behavior of Iran or the Houthis.
International pressure is growing to redesignate Yemen’s Houthi rebels as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO), but pushback is emerging from humanitarian groups who fear it could exacerbate the humanitarian crisis in Yemen. The concerns of these groups are not unfounded, but failure to relist the Houthis will not address the underlying, root cause of the issue — Iran’s destabilizing effects on the Middle East executed in concert with its terrorist proxies, which include the Houthis.
