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Letting 'bloodthirsty' Houthis run rampant at Suez Canal will lead to WW3, expert warns
The Houthis are supporting Hamas in the war in Gaza and blocking the Suez Canal shipping route, eliciting a response from UK and US missiles in a worrying global element to a growing conflict
Letting the 'bloodthirsty' Houthis take control of the Suez Canal and thus world shipping could eventually lead to World War Three, an expert has warned.
The Islamist group's leader Mohammed al-Bukhaiti said the US and UK would "soon realise" the action was "the greatest folly in their history" after the countries launched missiles at strategic Houthi sites in Yemen.
The attack was a response to the Yemeni rebel group launching dozens of attacks on ships sailing through the Red Sea and the Suez Canal since mid-November, threatening global trade.
Professor Anthony Glees from Buckingham University said their assault on the region sandwiched between the Arabian Penninsula and the east African coast is tantamount to the Iran-backed group "putting their nasty hands round the world's throat."
Reacting to the news that there was a total of 72 US and UK strikes across Yemen, Professor Glees said it is just right "to end their [the Houthis'] nonsense decisively" before another great war kicks off.
"We cannot allow the Shia rebels, backed by Iran, to strike against the freedom of the seas and plunge us back into economic recession by forcing international shipping to avoid the Suez canal," he told the Daily Star.
And, worse than recession, he said the skirmish could inspire something bigger.
He explained: "My own feeling is that trying to appease Iran or the Houthis by taking it on the chin, forcing the Suez Canal to be closed to international shipping is much more likely to eventually lead to a world war than our hitting very hard indeed the moment they poke us with their sticks."
The Houthis are supporting Hamas in the war in Gaza and the Islamic Human Rights Commission said they are blockading ships "bound for Israel in order to force the apartheid regime in Tel Aviv to halt the military onslaught on Gaza and lift the siege."
The groups leader said after the Hamas massacre on October 7 that his forces were “ready to move in the hundreds of thousands to join the Palestinian people and confront the enemy”.
Their involvement in the conflict between Hamas and Israel gives extra legs to a possible world war, Professor Glees said.
He explained: "What needs to be understood is that the local war, between Israel and Hamas, has, since 2300 our time yesterday (January 11), become a regional war, provoked by the Houthis supported by Iran and using weapons it has supplied.
"The big question is: will Iran respond? We will know by the weekend. And if Iran does respond we must expect that this regional war will become a wider war and, given Putin's ongoing attacks on Ukraine, perhaps even a general or world war."
Daily Star Sunday
The Houthis are supporting Hamas in the war in Gaza and blocking the Suez Canal shipping route, eliciting a response from UK and US missiles in a worrying global element to a growing conflict
Letting the 'bloodthirsty' Houthis take control of the Suez Canal and thus world shipping could eventually lead to World War Three, an expert has warned.
The Islamist group's leader Mohammed al-Bukhaiti said the US and UK would "soon realise" the action was "the greatest folly in their history" after the countries launched missiles at strategic Houthi sites in Yemen.
The attack was a response to the Yemeni rebel group launching dozens of attacks on ships sailing through the Red Sea and the Suez Canal since mid-November, threatening global trade.
Professor Anthony Glees from Buckingham University said their assault on the region sandwiched between the Arabian Penninsula and the east African coast is tantamount to the Iran-backed group "putting their nasty hands round the world's throat."
Reacting to the news that there was a total of 72 US and UK strikes across Yemen, Professor Glees said it is just right "to end their [the Houthis'] nonsense decisively" before another great war kicks off.
"We cannot allow the Shia rebels, backed by Iran, to strike against the freedom of the seas and plunge us back into economic recession by forcing international shipping to avoid the Suez canal," he told the Daily Star.
And, worse than recession, he said the skirmish could inspire something bigger.
He explained: "My own feeling is that trying to appease Iran or the Houthis by taking it on the chin, forcing the Suez Canal to be closed to international shipping is much more likely to eventually lead to a world war than our hitting very hard indeed the moment they poke us with their sticks."
The Houthis are supporting Hamas in the war in Gaza and the Islamic Human Rights Commission said they are blockading ships "bound for Israel in order to force the apartheid regime in Tel Aviv to halt the military onslaught on Gaza and lift the siege."
The groups leader said after the Hamas massacre on October 7 that his forces were “ready to move in the hundreds of thousands to join the Palestinian people and confront the enemy”.
Their involvement in the conflict between Hamas and Israel gives extra legs to a possible world war, Professor Glees said.
He explained: "What needs to be understood is that the local war, between Israel and Hamas, has, since 2300 our time yesterday (January 11), become a regional war, provoked by the Houthis supported by Iran and using weapons it has supplied.
"The big question is: will Iran respond? We will know by the weekend. And if Iran does respond we must expect that this regional war will become a wider war and, given Putin's ongoing attacks on Ukraine, perhaps even a general or world war."
Daily Star Sunday