Amid mounting pressure for the Biden administration to take action against Yemen’s Houthi rebels over continuing attacks on vessels in the Red Sea, Pentagon spokesman Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder will not say whether any military action is in the offing.
Ryder points instead to a statement Wednesday signed by the United States, Australia, Bahrain, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore and the United Kingdom which gave the Houthis what a senior Biden administration official described as a final warning.
″I’ll let the statement speak for itself, which, again, represented many nations around the world and highlighted that if these strikes don’t stop, there will be consequences,” Ryder says.
On Thursday, an armed unmanned surface vessel launched from Houthi-controlled Yemen got within a “couple of miles” of US Navy and commercial vessels in the Red Sea before detonating, in the first such attack since Houthi rebels began attacking ships in support of Hamas in Gaza.
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