The crisis in the Gulf is heating up, where Riyadh was forced to temporarily close the key East-West pipeline after a drone attack coming from Iraq, a free ground for pro-Tehran militias that are part of the Iranian resistance axis. Like the Houthis in Yemen. The raid, which caused some injuries and damage still being assessed, was not claimed. But Donald Trump, who flew to Ireland for a golf tournament at one of his resorts, has already pointed the finger at the ayatollahs, stating that Iran is probably responsible for the attack.
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The tycoon also reiterated that the war in Iran will end after the Midterm elections, when oil prices will collapse, and hinted that he will not intervene against the Yemeni rebels despite their conquest of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait on the Red Sea, one of the world’s most important routes for transporting oil from the Gulf to the Mediterranean.
“The Houthis called us and do not want to fight us, they do not want us to attack them,” The Donald told reporters, who last Thursday had already rejected the request of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to bomb the rebels. But the Houthis denied this shortly after.
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In a post on X, Hazem al-Assad, member of the political office of Ansarullah (Partisans of God), the armed organization of the Yemeni rebels, called the statement “unfounded and false,” emphasizing that no official from the Sana’a government contacted the White House. “As usual, with his habit of talking nonsense and telling ridiculous lies, the criminal Trump weaves baseless narratives.
But reality describes it well with the old proverb: ‘The hand you cannot break, kiss it and pray it breaks,'” Assad wrote. In reality, The Donald does not want to get bogged down on another war front, after the highly unpopular one in Iran that risks costing him dearly in the Midterm vote. The truth, however, is that he has now lost another strait, after Hormuz.
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