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The Houthis claiming attacks on two Saudi oil tankers as the Iran-backed group's blockade threatens shipping in the Red Sea, forcing other oil tankers to change course.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaking about the attacks this morning.
Look, I hope that they'll stop.
They shouldn't really do that.
They got suckered into this by the Iranians.
You know, the Houthis largely were smart and stayed out of all this uh throughout the the conflict, but um they now apparently have gotten themselves suckered into this going after Saudi Arabia and their ships.
I hope that will de-escalate because I think the Houthis frankly got snookered into this thing by by the Iranians.
And a US-based risk advisor focused on Yemen said the attacks could prompt a military response by Saudi Arabia, an Iranian adversary that has relied on Red Sea routes in recent months to export millions of barrels of oil.
Senior fellow at the Hudson Institute Rebecca Heinrichs joins me now.
Rebecca, there's really two parts to this and Marco Rubio, he touched on the first part.
You know, really Iran is now having the Houthis do their dirty work by by doing this.
Um and the second part, if these attacks continue, how is this going to affect the price of oil globally?
Right.
So, the Houthis are an Iranian proxy group.
So, they're funded and they're paid for by the Iranians.
And so, part of the United States' objective in degrading the Iranian military so much and squeezing them economically is to make sure that they cannot fund and support all these other arms um of their operations to destabilize the rest of the Middle East.
And so far, um as Secretary Rubio said, the Houthis have largely stayed out of this fight, which has been hugely helpful.
And so, for the Houthis to now be joining into this, they're clearly doing it at the direction of the Iranians, and they are a an an enemy of the of Saudi Arabia.
And Saudi Arabia in the past has been the one who's worked with the United States to take out the Houthis um along the Red Sea to make sure the Red Sea stays open.
So, this is an escalation.
Again, though, I would put the blame on the part of the Iranians.
Yeah, and I'll get to Saudi Arabia and the Trump administration, they reached um a landmark deal.
I'll get to that in a second, but um when it comes to these oil tankers, do you think Saudi Arabia needs to respond to this even though they've stayed out of it with Iran?
So, they should.
I mean, this is their backyard.
This is their part in large responsibility.
They have uh incredible capabilities to be able to do this, but the Saudis have still tried to stay out of this war for the most part.
They've allowed the United States to operate out of some of their basing, and so that has been good.
But remember, there was even that that hiccup where the Saudis got very nervous when the United States was conducting more muscular operations in Project Freedom.
And when the Iranians began to fire against Gulf states again, the Saudis got cold feet and said, "Listen the United States, if you're not going to go more aggressively against Iran, we don't think you we don't want you to take more muscular actions because the Iranians are going to retaliate against us."
So, they paused the United States' ability to conduct overflights in Saudi Arabia.
We're back at it, but again, the Saudis have not been entirely good allies and partners with the United States on this, and so um the Saudis really need to get some courage here and come along the Emiratis, the UAE has conducted offensive strikes against Iran, but Saudi has not.
Um and then finally, I I staying on the topic of Saudi Arabia, the Trump administration, they reached that landmark nuclear deal with them.
Saudi Arabia has been an ally of the United States since the nation's forming, and I'm thrilled in our efforts and where this is going.
This will be top level, highest standards for nuclear safety and safeguards ever done.
Nuclear cooperations are long-term and strategic.
They're about energy, but they're about partnership.
America's a leader in this technology, we're launching a nuclear renaissance.
You're going to hear a lot about American nuclear technology uh being spread around the world.
Your response to that and your reaction.
So, I agree with Secretary Wright we need to have strong US-Saudi partnership, and I'm glad that we are making improvements in that area, but I am not cheering this agreement.
Why?
It does allow the United States companies to come in and develop civil nuclear energy with the Saudis, and that boxes out China and Russia, which is critically important.
But, this deal does not have the gold standard safeguards that the UAE, for instance, has that prevents the Saudis from having any domestic enrichment capabilities.
So, I am concerned about the the proliferation the possibility that one day Saudi Arabia could have a nuclear weapon.
So, Congress is going to have to approve this.
We're approaching 25 years since 9/11.
Regimes can change.
So, I think that we should take this slowly and make sure the Saudis normalize relations with the Israelis first before we move forward with this kind of deal.
Yeah, I think there's going to be a lot of pause that comes along with this.
Rebecca, thank you so much for your time.
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