Houthies which big ally of Iran. So just to come back here and and reshow the
Houthi rebels in Yemen are coordinating with the pirates to disrupt shipping. We can't say that for sure of course but
The Houthis are an important proxy of Iran.
the Houthis in Yemen.
by Houthy militants in Yemen continue in the Red Sea. The Iranian proxy group said that they attacked Saudi military
Yemenbased Houthies and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. So it's unlikely that we will see a knee-jerk reaction from Oman
make sure the Houthies are pretty secure right here. It was So, just again for the people that can't see.
the the uh the Houthies in May 2025 to try to get them to uh pull back from
as your Houthies. They can actually attack the shipping. So now you have a you're you're Iran. You're a major
Yemen's Iranbacked Houthi movements have claimed a strike on a Saudi military ship and four accompanying
I am not talking about the Houthis.
had threatened to activate its Houthi allies in Yemen to block shipping in the Red Sea. The Red Sea flows through the
that suspect that perhaps uh Houthi rebels are coordinating with the Somali pirates. There was one report of that a
And so you wrote about Leslie Van Houten.
There is a secondary fight going on between the Houthis and the Saudis.
have been paying for tens of thousands of salaries in the Houthi-controlled territories of Yemen for the last few
boats. The Houthis have been ramping up strikes on vessels in the Red Sea in recent weeks.
You even say that I make it clear that Leslie Van Houten is one of the three original Manson women that has been in jail since 1969.
Next, Iran had threatened to get its Yemen Houthi allies to block shipping in
the straight of Hormuz is closed. But increased Houthy attacks near the Baba Elmandab Strait means that that route
no part of that negotiation. The Iranians are telling the Houthis to go, but the Iranians have no part of that
negotiation. And as long as the Saudis pay off the Houthis sufficiently, which I suspect they will do and they
And where's the key one? You don't you already have the Houthies down here. You have Hezbollah here, but you want to
Yeah. So, you're saying the Houthies are pretty secure where the Houthies are pretty secure down here in Yemen. They've been fighting uh with
Red Sea. Well, the Houthies have just shut this down literally today.
What's going to happen with Are we going to give Are they going to give it to the Houthis? So, these are the kind of
and diverted to Somalia. It coincides with Iran's threats to get its Houthy allies to block shipping in the Red Sea.
And many of them are conflicts that are taking an asymmetric sort of tilt where you've got somebody like the Houthis, as an example,
. And this is me and Mike Parsons and the King of Abalonia, Jim Houtz and Greg Long.
That's why we see the Red Sea is less passable than it used to be as the Houthis are popping rockets off at those trying to go
with security council resolutions that have never been enacted to date." Also, the Houthis in Yemen who continue to engage in attacks against shipping
The Shia militants in Iraq, in Syria, the Houthis in Yemen in particular, they could also engage in strikes into
Okay. So, we've got the Straight of Hermoose closed. We've got the Houthies closing the Red Sea,
Lebanon, Hezbollah, including here in Yemen, the Houthis, and of course in
Hm. Barbara, what's fueling that surge in piracy? Are Are the Houthis behind all of it?
everybody's thinking about, of course, is that Iran has threatened to ask its Houthi allies in Yemen block shipping in
build a nation out there. What do you think?" And Houtz said the idea really got the wheels spinning. It was like, "Okay. I got a project here. What will it take to do it?" Houtz came
and they got the ship sort of positioned atop the Bishop rock. And then things started to go haywire. And the reason it did was because this was, of course, November and Houtz had
This is Kirkwood after he's been liberated from the ship. He was in the water. Jim Houtz, the gentleman in the other photo, is standing behind the superstructure here. He had been