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#StateThinking: What is the Biden Administration policy with Iran, the Houthis, Hezbollah, Hamas? @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State. Executive VP Stephens Inc.

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🗓️ 24 January 2024

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#StateThinking: What is the Biden Administration policy with Iran, the Houthis, Hezbollah, Hamas? @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State. Executive VP Stephens Inc.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/01/23/houthi-strikes-red-sea-attacks-uk-us-sunak/

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I'm John Batsu with my colleague Mary Kessel,

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executive Vice President Stevens Incorporated,

0:41.0

former senior advisor to the Secretary of State, the Red Sea and the Suez Canal, are now

0:47.1

blocked by threats by the Huthy Movement, Yemenite, North Yemen, with sophisticated weapons, solid fuel weapons,

1:00.0

that because of coordination with Iran and other suspect bad actors can target the commercial

1:06.6

shipping in the Red Sea.

1:08.0

You know all this.

1:09.3

The U.S. and sometimes the UK have responded by firing missiles and hitting the launch sites, but not

1:19.5

not striking at the Huthi leadership or the Yemeni leadership. They can be

1:25.2

coterminous. You can look upon the huthies as the government of what is left of

1:29.6

Yemen, a nation torn apart by civil war over many years with itself and then the war with

1:35.4

Saudi Arabia. So the US and UK are firing missiles at lawn sides but not looking

1:41.2

to decapitate which is what it conducted for years against al-Qaeda

1:47.6

and now conducts against ISIS and other bad actors in the Middle East.

1:51.7

Why not marry? Why not go after the

1:53.7

leadership? Why just hit their toys that they get from Iran? It's a great question

1:58.9

John and it's hard to understand the thinking in the White House,

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