The files we follow: Relations between Iran and its Neighboring Countries; Relations between Iran and the United States; Relations between Iran and the BRICS; Relations between Turkey and the European Union; Relations between Turkey and the BRICS; Relations between Gulf Countries and the United States; Geopolitics of Yemen: Between Internal Fragmentations and Regional Interferences.
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The decision to restore Ansar Allah to the U.S. State Department’s Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO) list marked a decisive shift in Washington’s engagement in Yemen. On March 15, President Trump announced on X that American strikes in the country’s northwest would be stepped up in response to the growing Houthi threat to Red Sea shipping lanes. He directed U.S. forces to carry out heavy bombardment of Houthi positions in the north, arguing that the campaign launched by President Biden in December 2023 had been too limited. In the same tweet, the President directly warned Iran that any support for the Houthi counterattacks would trigger retaliatory measures. In a CBS interview, the U.S. Secretary of State accused the group of having “struck or attacked 174 U.S. warships” over the past 18 months, adding that the president’s warning extended to Iran: “Do not continue to back them, for you will bear responsibility for their attacks on warships and on global maritime trade.”
Shortly after these statements, a confidential Signal chat among Tulsi Gabbard, J.D. Vance, Marco Rubio, and Rep. Michael Waltz leaked. By mistake, the national security advisor had added Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic, to a Signal group dedicated to planning and advancing the offensive in Yemen. The so-called “Signalgate” leak thus revealed not only the details of the air campaign but also the skepticism of both the vice president and the secretary of state regarding this war. Vance states in the group that only “3 percent of US trade runs through the Suez. 40 percent of European trade does”, then in the same message, suggests “that the president [isn’t] aware how inconsistent this is with his message on Europe right now.”
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