Saturday 07/March/2026 – 11:32 PM
The Houthi group announced YemenToday, Saturday, it expressed its full readiness to engage in the war in support of Iran, which is facing an American-Israeli war, stressing that expanding the scope of the confrontation to include new fronts, including Yemen, is now a matter of time, in light of the increasing pace of military escalation in the region.
Mohammed Al-Bukhaiti, a senior political official in the Iran-backed Houthi group, confirmed that the group is carefully monitoring the rapid developments in the region, stressing that their fighters are on maximum alert.
Al-Bukhaiti said, in a telephone interview with the New York Times, that the issue of the conflict expanding to include other countries, including Yemen, is only a matter of time, adding in a warning tone: Our hands are on the trigger.
The Houthis threaten to join the war
These statements come at a time when the region is witnessing sharp military alignments, as Al-Bukhaiti issued a direct threat to the American side, considering that the United States will be the biggest loser in the end if the current path of escalation continues.
Al-Bukhaiti did not disclose the nature of the expected military movements or the exact timing of any possible escalation, but he indicated that the decision to participate comes in the context of responding to the ongoing developments in the regional arena, which opens the door to the possibility of expanding the circle of conflict in the Red Sea and international shipping lanes.
